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Hard questions that create thirst
There is a place the Spirit calls and I am all too unwilling to walk.
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Single focus
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 are trying to be several…
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Don’t cheapen grace
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 we bestow on ourselves. Cheap…
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When his Presence “steals upon us”
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 new center. — Thomas R…
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The blessedness of rejection
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 word and deed. It is…
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Apprehended by Christ
He has laid siege to my heart. There is simply no place I can go where he is not. He pursues me… hard.
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New Wine, New Wineskins
The new wineskin is this: knowing how to use good forms in timing with the rhythm of the Kingdom.
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No rights we claim as the people of God
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 they are cast out, they…
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Lord, deliver me from halfway measures
You call me to unreserved obedience.
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The freedom NOT to worry
Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry.
Tag: Lent
