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Devoted hearts will find victory
God wants surrender as the choice of our heart.
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Picking and choosing how and when we love God
God terrifies humans.
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The POWER of praying the Lord’s Prayer
We need subversive prayers. We need our worlds turned on end.
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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 residue of the unredeemed two-year-old who…
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Self-Discovery
“There is no true life apart from relationship to God.”
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Dealing with the “you” that God knows
The truly spiritual life is not an escape from reality but a total commitment to it.
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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. The text itself, subtracting discussion group…
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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 use the word “wreck,” or I…
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