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God isn’t bothered by “small”
I am reading through 1 Samuel now and Samuel as a character always draws me in. His “calling” is what his mother says it is. He grew up with a fixed duty. It’s offensive to our Western sense of the individual. That was just the world in which Samuel lived.
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Rules of Kingdom Life
I will be heading out on a personal retreat this week and try to move away from all the electronic tethers that I use to choke me… and then I blame Mark Zuckerberg… But I digress.
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Quit embracing distraction
The fact of the matter is this: we like noise. We complain about it… but do we remove it? Technology is not the core problem. Social media is not the core problem. Distraction is our core spiritual problem.
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Arranging my life
While we lost a giant of the faith in Tim Keller just a few weeks ago, the giant I’ve missed is Dallas Willard. Another quote from him that settles my heart:
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The heartbreaking temptation to prove ourselves
THIS ARTICLE from Russell Moore is a must read. We don’t want to just know we’re “right”… we want to WIN and then shove it in the faces of people who think we’re wrong. Much of what passes for “political action” or even just “cultural engagement” is really about a sense of injury—more specifically a sense of humiliation: “You think…
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Apathy and our current spiritual malaise
So, I ran across this book on overcoming apathy and thought it might be a good read, but I just didn’t care enough to buy it. Actually, I came across an article about a book on apathy, suppressed a yawn, and began reading. Before long I was introduced to an old term I had studied years ago: acedia.
Category: Spiritual Formation
