“To continue to eye God primarily in terms of laws, obligations, and civil ordinances represents a retreat to a pre-Christian level of thought and rejection of Jesus Christ and the total sufficiency of his redeeming work.” – Brennan Manning. One of the things today facing us in the body of Christ is the public view […]
“Christians are a source of hope to the extent that others can find in them a source of strength and joy.” – Brennan Manning We find the word “hope” on the lips of the masses these days. Hope in the inauguration of a new president, hope in the resurrection of the economy, and hope to […]
“Without the purpose and work of Christ using me for his purpose, my contribution to this world would be an asphalt driveway in front of our home and a thousand lost golf balls.” – T. S. Elliot What do we illuminate in our own existence? Who do we reflect? When we interact with others, what […]
“There is no substance under the things with which you are clothed. You are hollow and your structure of pleasure and ambitions has no foundation. You are objectified in them. But they are all destined, by their very contingency, to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of you but […]
“When you are faithful in silent meditation… you will slowly experience yourself in a deeper way. Because in this useless hour in which you do nothing “important” or urgent you have to come to terms with your basic powerlessness, you have to feel your fundamental inability to solve your or others problems or to change […]
“Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things are passing. God alone remains.” – Therese of Lisieux With so many things in flux in our world today, we are longing for something to find consistency in. We are looking for someone to believe in and restore hope in our lives. Oh, to find […]
“People have always misunderstood God’s mission. For it is always to call people out from a land of bondage into a land of freedom. To help people escape from their won forms of slavery; to help his people exodus into a land he promised them.” – J. M. Doss As we contemplate the will of […]
“The truth shall set you free.” The words of Christ to those who believe in Him to understand what it is to be his disciple. These days the truth seems harder and harder to find.
“Today is the greatest day I’ve never known Can’t wait for tomorrow I might not have that long I’ll tear my heart out before I get out.” – Billy Corgan The lyrics of the Smashing Pumpkins were of no comfort that rainy afternoon. They only seemed to inflame my dismay and anger my heart. I […]
“Many Christians have gathered like ravens around the carcass of cheap grace and there have drunk the poison which has killed the following of Christ.” – Dietrich Bonheoffer Society at large has made the individual at the focus of everything. Personal achievement, acquisition, status and acclaim bombard us around every corner. From shows like American […]
