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April 4, 2008 at 1:34 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: change, god, hope, passion
Something clicked this week. I’m dead tired of hiding in the church. I’m tired of hiding behind all my church activities so I don’t have to really connect with people of other backgrounds. I’m tired of analyzing, estimating, predicting, strategizing, etc.
I just want to love people. Where they are. Not where I am.
This trip out west has given me perspective and a passion I haven’t had for a long time. I’m actually not sure I’ve ever been this way before.
God is a God of change and transformation. Nothing is beyond the light of hope.
March 24, 2008 at 4:17 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: easter, god
It can be a job hazard that we’re paid to talk about God. It can quickly become a job or something we do because we have to. We spend weeks getting ready for Easter and then the moment comes and…
yeah.
I am constantly learning how much work I need to put into my relationship with God. If I feel distant, unconnected, losing energy and passion, or feeling lost, there’s a reason.
I stopped listening, learning and talking with God. The very maker of the entire universe wants to listen to me.
me?
January 10, 2008 at 12:12 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: creed, god, interpretation, scripture
I can never be sure that my perspective is true in any larger sense. I declare what is true “for me.” But is it true for others as well?
Anyone who thinks that Scripture speaks clearly and unequivocally simply has not read it carefully enough. It is full of obscurity and conflicting views.
But many interpretations reveal the richness of Scripture.
God is not an object we can define. Everything that humans can say about God comes through the process of God’s self-disclosure in and through the world, a process that always remains elusive and uncontrollable.
God’s absolute otherness demands silence rather than description.
The believer affirms that there is mystery at the heart of the world, a mystery that does not yield to direct examination, that refuses to be measured or manipulated, yet suggests its presence in every single thing that we can feel and taste and see and hear and smell in the world.
Every time we pray to God through the risen Lord Jesus, say “yes” to God and mean it, we also thereby say “no” to a world defined on the basis of matter alone, a world run solely on the basis of measurement and manipulation.
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