Category: Meditation

I read this while I’m breathing slower and not feeling driven … “To laugh often, to win the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy…

“… the feast of the Blessed Trinity, it is not an invitation to theological speculation about three persons in one God. Rather it recalls the experience of Jesus, our brother. He spoke of himself as a beloved son, as one who does not send himself but is sent on a mission, and as being joined…

From The ‘New’ Footprints … I like this version, I mumbled it in one of the classes this past week ~ Sivin. “Now imagine you and the Lord Jesus are walking along the beach together. For much of the way the Lord’s footprints go along steadily, consistently, rarely varying in the pace. But your prints…

“Ten minutes of silent prayer each day will alter your life.” ~ Henri Nouwen After entering the three crazy week phase, slowly moving into week two next monday with the course I’m teaching in STM, the stuff here in The Youth Ministry & Spirituality Project has been most helpful (with loads of reminders). The more…

“The mission of the church is to love Jesus. Everything else is just strategy.” ~ Mark Allan Powell (via Willzhead) I think my mind is still occupied with the first play for the Runaway Bride last sunday by the Footstool Players. The scene of the groom asking the bride the question “do you love me?”…

“It is a great mistake to think of the gospel as purely spiritual in nature. There are spiritual religions, but Christianity is not one of them. Throughout Christian history there has been concern for bodies as well as souls. There has been almost as much emphasis upon hospitals as upon places of worship, and the…

“[Jesus’] new world order is based on the experience of a God who is experienced personally. Jesus seems to be saying that God is not a philosophical system, a theory to be proven or an energy to be discussed or controlled, although we have often reduced God to such. Jesus believes that God is a…

“Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.” ~ Anwar Fazal We need quotes like this.

“… the gospel is the work of God to restore humans to union with God and communion with others, in the context of a community, for the good of others and the world. … God designed the gospel for us. God designs the gospel for more than my goodness and my sin and my redemption…

“A community which insists upon keeping its illusion when it should be shattered, permanently loses in that moment the promise of Christian community. Sooner or later it will collapse. Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to…