Lent
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In our multi-tasking, ADHD world, it is incredibly hard to understand how divided that makes us internally. We often blame our external circumstances for the hectic pace, but Thomas Kelly in A Testament to Devotion offers another thought: The outer distractions of our interests reflect an inner lack of integration of our own lives. We… Read more
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Our way forward as the Church is to take up the prophetic mantle once again. We need to stand for Kingdom goodness and rightness. It may make us sound like Democrats at times, Republicans at others. We need to learn to BLESS. We need to learn the models of Joseph, Daniel, and Esther. We need… Read more
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Some of my favorite lines from Dietrich Bonhoeffer on grace. Cheap grace means grace as bargain-basement goods, cut-rate forgiveness, cut-rate comfort, cut-rate sacraments; grace as the church’s inexhaustible pantry, from which it is doled out by careless hands without hesitation or limit. It is grace without a price, without cost… Cheap grace is that which… Read more
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There are times when the Presence steals upon us… For the holy Now is not something which we, by our activity, by our dynamic energy, overtake or come upon. it is a now which itself is dynamic, which lays hold actively upon us, which breaks in actively upon us and re-energizes us from within a… Read more
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In judgment and action those who follow Jesus will be different from the world in renouncing their property, happiness, rights, righteousness, honor, and violence. They will be offensive to the world. That is why the disciples will be persecuted for righteousness’ sake. Not recognition, but rejection will be their reward from the world for their… Read more
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Quick thought for the morning from Rom. 8:26-30. I am being formed into the image of the Holy One. Spirit-empowered prayer is crucial in my formation. A quick quote from Bonhoeffer: “Their hearts are fully absorbed in seeing God.” Lord, today let my heart be trained for the yearning I need to know you! Read more
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He has laid siege to my heart. There is simply no place I can go where he is not. He pursues me… hard. Read more
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The new wineskin is this: knowing how to use good forms in timing with the rhythm of the Kingdom. Read more
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No rights they might claim protect this community of strangers in the world. Nor do they claim any such rights, for they are the meek, who renounce all rights of their own for the sake of Jesus Christ. When they are berated, they are quiet. When violence is done to them, they endure it. When… Read more
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You call me to unreserved obedience. Read more
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