Category: Meditation

[This picture was taken when I was at the peak of Zugspitze, Germany, what an awesome view which humbles one’s view of ourselves] I heard this poem quoted by Brian McLaren in his talk entitled “Ministry in a Postmodern Context Part 1” on Allelon Radio’s Podcasts. “He whom I bow to only knows to whom…

[Note: The cross with the Scripture above is on a memorial plaque at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Site (which I gratefully had the chance to visit in November 2006) honoring Bonhoeffer, Canaris, Oster, and others who were executed here in April 1945] “Gracious God, thank you for your faithfulness to us as we begin a new…

The following quote has been ringing in my head since I saw it the first time. I thought I’d share it since it was a Christmas gift 🙂 and we’re still in the Christmas season. Good to have the focus. “Let us, then, meditate upon the nativity just as we see it happening in our…

“… it can be intoxicating to inordinately focus on our brokenness and pain, but at some point we have to avert our gaze and let ourselves be lost in the beauty of Jesus …” – A Christmas Day Surprise – A Christmas Eve Reminder (thanks Stephen Shields for highlighting Bruce Marcey’s message at Warehouse 242)

During this advent season as we draw close this weekend to Christmas, can we hear the whisper of God, to open our inner lives to him too … ? “… Thinking about justice, talking about peace, debating public policy, and working for social change are important … but not as a substitute for the very…

When Pastor Thomas Hoffman explained to me how one of his members took broken glass and designed this art-piece for the Christuskirche, he got my attention. Even broken glass can be turned into beautiful art! And that’s a great picture of what happens when we allow “Grace” to visit us, or re-visit us (some of…

“How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one…

“… according to the measure of my insight, a theological teacher can have “disciples” only in the sense that he teaches them to immerse themselves more thoroughly in the lifelong school of Holy Scripture, in order that there they may find the criteria for the training of their own faculty of judgment. The pastor, by…

I can only tell you what I believe; I believe: I cannot be saved by foreign policies. I cannot be saved by the sexual revolution. I cannot be saved by the gross national product. I cannot be saved by nuclear deterrents. I cannot be saved by aldermen, priests, artists, plumbers, city planners, social engineers, nor…