Listening Between the Lines

  We are in such a talky time. We talk to be heard. We talk to gain power. We talk to defend our positions. We talk to defend God. We talk to process our own pain. We talk with voices. We talk with pens. We talk with keyboards.   Jesus […]

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Closed Church, Open Heart

  We have counted on preaching and teaching   to form the life of the Christian. But this strategy has not turned out well.   The result is that we have multitudes of Christians who   can hardly get along with themselves, much less others.” ~ Dallas Willard   For […]

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What Becomes of What Remains

Victor Frankl tells this story of his arrival in a Nazi death camp:    “There were still naive prisoners among us who asked, to the amusement of the more seasoned ones who were there as helpers, if they could not keep a wedding ring, a medal or a good-luck piece.  […]

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Twenty Things God Knows About Me – An Exercise in Living Loved

When last we spoke, I mentioned how Psalm 139:1 had sucker-punched my life (in all good ways).  It woke me up to the idea that God is not attracted to my wins and repelled by my wounds.  It boldly asserts: You search me and know everything about me.   Everything. […]

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The Little Lie That Ruins Rest

  Still sifting through Psalm 139:1 (here’s the first thing I wrote about this verse) and if you’ve forgotten what it says, let me bring you up to date:   You have searched me, Lord, and You know me.   I didn’t want to leave this little verse behind yet, […]

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