Category: Meditation

So often, we have become over-dependant on authority figures whether it’s our family, our elders, our government, our leaders, some authors, some historical figure, some speaker, some (fill in the blanks) … all of them have a place along our journey but they are not meant to stiffle our growth, close our minds, or worse…

I’m finding the selections from Soren Kierkegaard’s journals captivating … such as this gem … “People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood” ~ Soren Kierkegaard, Feb, 1836

I can’t help but keep on thinking about the “who am I?” poem that keeps capturing my attention whenever I even hear the phrase “who am I?”. After beign reminded by the previous song in the previous post … I’m drawn deeper into how this question brings me to what’s essential once again – not…

Apparently this song caught the attention of a non-christian guests during our 5th Anniversary when we used it to accompany our slide show … Who am I? By Casting Crowns Who am I? That the Lord of all the earth, Would care to know my name, Would care to feel my hurt, Who am I?…

Reading the introduction to Soren Kierkegaard’s life last night – 35 pages of it – was fascinating, tragic, moving, sad, surprised and challenging … here’s a little phrase that stood out for me. “Life must be lived forward, but understood backwards.”

Thanks to Chin Hor for taking this interesting shot during our Batman Begins guys afternoon out! Ben Ong wrote some good insights on Vulnerability sparked by the movie. Thanks to JR WOODWARD for bringing up this timely reminder from Oscar Romero to start the “second” day of the week: “christ became a man of his…

As I’m finalizing my message preparations for tommorrow’s message by reading these notes on Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43. This struck me …. “I had an old seminary professor who began and ended his apologetics lecture with one sentence: “You defend God like you defend a lion — you get out of his way.” God, it seems,…

Thanks to Rich Meilheim for these “wake up!” quotes … I’ll pick a few … before I lay my head down to sleep. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”– Dietrich Bonhoeffer “If you’re going to practice what you preach, you may have to put in some overtime.” “The people who…

Thanks Kitty for the reminder … I need to finalize my menu for this Sunday tomorrow … and I hope my “snacks” helped some who desired to “contribute” better to their small groups tonight … “A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper and complained that it made no sense to…

at times you hope everything is clear and smooth … then “splat” … it happens right in front of you … a memorable line popped out of my German friend last Sunday when we were facilitating a pretty serious worship and liturgy conversation. I think this was what I heard … “During confession of sin,…