Category: Spiritual Formation

  • The silence and the solitude

    Dallas Willard says that practicing solitude with silence are the most important spiritual disciplines for people today, especially pastors. In our busy, noisy world we need to “unhook” and get away in order to be alone and be ourselves with our Lord.

  • The need of spiritual friendship

    All I want you to do is two things: show up and shut up.

  • Die. Change.

    Today this thought came to me: “Die, then change.”

  • Slow walk to maturity — filling our minds with Christ

    Christ bids us come and die. That dying process is brutal because we like how it is in our lives.

  • By faith

    Coming through Hebrews 11 and as we turn into the main point of Hebrews 12, I can hear the author of Hebrews fairly shouting: “Quit being so lazy in your faith!”

  • You choose where you dwell

    Romans 8 calls us to recognize the depths of God’s goodness and how he has empowered us for all things. It is a matter of choosing where you dwell. 

  • Heart prayer of the day

    My heart leaps when I read Colossians 3:1-4

  • The DIFFERENCE of Christ

    There is a higher call in Christ. There is a walk that is worthy of Christ.

  • Finding our way home

    We are in a time and culture of division. We splinter into tiny factions to find support for our echo chambers. And then we think that’s how the world really works.

  • The power of eternal glory

    The struggle for civil rights and equality that has demands far beyond any law or court decision cannot be fought with just the temporal in mind. We need sight of the eternal.