Tag: Spiritual hunger

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    9/11 — 25 Years Later

    This will be the defining moment of my entire life. It is a defining moment for an entire generation, whether they realize it or not. The impact of that day and that time will keep on reverberating, and much of that reverberation will be because we have failed, as a culture, to dig deep and examine the impact of that…

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    Contrasting views on hatred and hell

    I came across a post from a Christian nationalist and then a thought from Thomas Merton in New Seeds of Contemplation.

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    God doesn’t need soldiers

    Some thoughts from Pope Leo XIV: ” Brothers, sisters… I speak to you, especially to those who no longer believe, no longer hope, no longer pray, because they think God has left.

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    Week 13: The Affections of Christ and Rising to the Call

    “Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man the or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of…

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    Lord, save me from certainty

    Three quick sayings that get in my mind from time to time: The opposite of love is not hate. It is silence. The opposite of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth. It’s justice.

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    Week Five: The Affections of Christ… ONE THING

    One thing I ask from the Lord,    this only do I seek:that I may dwell in the house of the Lord    all the days of my life,to gaze on the beauty of the Lord    and to seek him in his temple. (Ps. 27:4, NIV)

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    The affections of Christ

    We approach Lent and that is always a reflective time for me. Yet, as we draw in, I am struck by a hunger that keeps calling me… and I keep ignoring.

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    The temptation to “multitask”

    Psalm 27:4 — “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek…”

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    Sermon on Simeon and Anna

    This past Sunday I was grateful to preach on Simeon and Anna. LISTEN HERE. I need the example of Simeon and Anna in my life. To wait. To anticipate. To hear the voice of the Spirit.

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    The serious pursuit of Christ

    I have some deep questions driving me right now. I want Christ formed in me. Not just in me… because I believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ and he didn’t do all this for me alone. He is about the business of redeeming and reclaiming the world. This I believe.