God wants surrender as the choice of our heart.
Tag Archives: David Benner
Picking and choosing how and when we love God
God terrifies humans.
The POWER of praying the Lord’s Prayer
We need subversive prayers. We need our worlds turned on end.
Coming into willingness, not willfulness
I am beginning the third slender volume by David Benner called Desiring God’s Will. It is part of a wonderful trilogy that deserves to be read slowly. This quote for today: The motto of willfulness is “My way or no way.” Because of this, willfulness leads to death, not freedom. It is an act of rebellion — the residueContinue reading “Coming into willingness, not willfulness”
Self-Discovery
“There is no true life apart from relationship to God.”
Dealing with the “you” that God knows
The truly spiritual life is not an escape from reality but a total commitment to it.
Book Review: Surrender to Love by David Benner
I received Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality by David Benner from IVP. It is part of a trilogy of small books Benner has updated. The foreword by M. Basil Pennington has this sentence: “It took me several weeks to read.” The volume I as holding in my hands was slender. TheContinue reading “Book Review: Surrender to Love by David Benner”
Four Lines to Wreck My Day
I have found culturally these days that words have duel, and opposite, meanings. When I’ve heard something or someone described as “sick,” I think, “Oh, that’s too bad. What’s wrong with them?” Then, I find out the word meant, “Awesome,” or “incredible,” or something opposite of what the word used to mean for me. So, I useContinue reading “Four Lines to Wreck My Day”
Apprentice 2 Jesus 