Scotty Smith offers a prayer about where God leads His people. Not where we’d go by our own decision, but it’s where we need to go. It’s written for a Monday, but as the week flows along you can see how the prayer is being answered. Do you show contempt for the riches of his …
A reminder from Chad Bird that life as a disciple of Jesus is life with the Church; and growth as a disciple of Jesus with the church is a slow-cooker experience, not a microwave experience. The work of Jesus in our lives, and in the life of his church, creeps along like that Matthew genealogy. …
The sacraments of modern culture are personal achievements, measured, quantified, compared. But they are not enough to provide a satisfaction that we have connection with eternity. There is no rest, only striving. The good news is something better than that. From Chad Bird: In the kingdom of the almighty number, where the first are first …
The church will gather together tomorrow to hear the news of the unsuccessful life. From Upside-Down Spirituality: Christianity has a God who knows that if the church runs the way of success, we’ll eventually tumble headfirst into the grave of irrelevance. That’s where the quest for success leads us – into a kind of death, …
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