As I write this, I’m sitting at the bar facing the windows of my favorite coffee shop. I love the open feel of the place, the light streaming in from the street, the white and wood detail with the little cream colored lights trailing around the banister of the upper level of tables. It’s a […]
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Some of my favorite memories from my time growing up were the concerts we gave on our One Heart tours. One Heart was the high school choir made up of people from our youth group at the church I grew up in. As we had a very large youth group, over seventy kids on a
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The exchange paradigm puts us in a prison. The unfortunate thing is some people never realize their spirits are locked away. They sit by the bars and think their small cell is all there is. They don’t realize there are meadows, mountains, and flowers to run through. Thus, the first step out is to realize
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I really liked Francis De Sales view that you can have unity with God without visions but you cannot have unity without action. The text called it a grounded mysticism, a term I appreciated. A friend posted a question on facebook last night asking whether the gospel is what you believe or what you do.
Why do we stay in a self-made prison? Why do we stay in a place that shuts out life from our souls? Why do we hold grudges? Don’t we understand that the chains we hold for someone else weighs us down in the floods of grief and bitterness? When we hold grudges, we see the
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Are you a sprinkler, a dunker, or the inward fountain? From what I know of all of you, the people reading this span across the whole baptism belief spectrum. Some people believe, not necessarily anyone reading this, that you have to be completely submerged to be saved, some believe as long as you are baptized
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What if this is as good as it gets? What if the life we are living right now is the best we’ll ever have, ever experience? We spend a great deal of time in our lives telling ourselves things will be better when… (fill in the blank). For me, it is usually when this or
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I needed to hear this today, I thought you might too. “Darkness is really not so different from places of illumination, it’s simply that the light hasn’t touched it yet. In essence darkness and light are the same in that God is fully present in both, and that is the most important reality. The other
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I loved this quote by Thomas Merton: “He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others.” I have been thinking a lot lately about the importance of service and of taking care
Though already a few hours into the morning, the forest is still seemingly cloaked in barely lightened dawn. A lone bird quietly sings the day’s arrival as we make our way through the eerily silent trees. Muted yellows and puddles of red mixed with the green trees among the hills, autumn slipped in among the
