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The knowing beyond the knowable
We need the boldness to climb the mountain we can’t conquer.
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Be filled to capacity
I want to live in the divine call.
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The astonishing capacity to know God
Not only are our lives set free from the bondage of sin, but we are gifted with an astonished capacity to know God.
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It is time for a renewed hunger
I am working my way through a book by Andy Lord called Transforming Renewal: Charismatic Renewal Meets Thomas Merton The book is a comparison of the teaching of David Watson and Thomas Merton. I know a David Watson, so I quickly discovered they’re not the same men… mainly because the David Watson in Lord’s book died several years ago. (I’m pretty…
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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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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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Lord, deliver me from halfway measures
You call me to unreserved obedience.
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Don’t stay empty
The journey of Lent is one that should be inward. As western Christians, we don’t “do inward” very well. We don’t like silence a lot, either. Protestant emphasis, beginning so nobly in the early Luther, has grown externally rationalistic, humanistic, and service-minded… The dearth of rich Protestant literature on the interior aspect of Christian living, except as it bears on…
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