Christian faith would be so much healthier if we didn't see our faith as a war to be won or people as enemies but as worlds to be explored and people to be loved.
03132 – Healthy Christian Faith
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02664 – This World vs. The Next World
There are just some kind of men who — who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. from To Kill a...
02637 – It’s Entirely Possible!
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
02601 – Lent is Designed to be Life-Giving
Dear ones, the world in which we live is challenging and complicated enough without intentionally adding to our burdens. There is no spiritual discipline commended to our embrace that is designed just to make us feel badly. There is no labor suggested in our tradition...
02221 – Avoiding Thorny Matters?
A church that doesn't provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a Word of God that doesn't get under anyone's skin, what kind of gospel is that? Preachers who avoid every thorny matter so as not to be harassed do not light up the world.
02142 – My Apple Tree
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
02124 – Finding a Way Forward
The world is growing more integrated, not less. Studying moral leadership is a way forward in a world where earnest people of faith have no choice but to speak to each other, not just about each other. from Moral Leadership for a Divided Age
02039 – Ain’t So!
The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so.
01573 – Feeling Useless?
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.
01470 – Preaching Both Comedy and Tragedy
Switching on the lectern light and clearing his throat, the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them of the truth and because Jesus speaks them both, blessed be he. The preacher tells the truth by speaking of the...