FAITH ACCELERATOR
This is my new Faith Accelerator Course: Turn off the phone.Choose silence.Submit to the Holy Spirit. Listen carefully.Be trained in how to hear…not what to […]
Ben Fike
About Ben Fike
Posts by Ben Fike:
BECOMING NEW
Sometimes we can get much better because we can’t get much worse. In reality I think that the gospel teaches us not to become better […]
SOME OF THE MAXIMS
‘Maxim: a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct’. These are 27 of the 55 well-known maxims of Thomas Hopko (1939-2015) […]
SORTING OUR HEARTS
“The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts and all the treasures […]
SULLIVAN AND THE HOUSE BUILDER
Sullivan Sparrow had been busy all morning and decided to land in a large Sycamore tree and take a short rest. Not far from where […]
WEEDS AND WHEAT
Recently in the night I saw the parable of the Tares (weeds) and Wheat (Matthew 13). The thought process was how in our Wheat life […]
CRAFTED BY CULTURE
Doris Lessing (1919-2013) a British novelist wrote this striking paragraph in 1962 in a book called ‘The Golden Notebook.’ It is almost as if she […]
CALLED OUT
Richard Rohr, Catholic priest and teacher wrote: “It’s hard and very rare to call your own job into question. When Jesus called his disciples, he […]
GOOD ARCHITECTURE, GOOD THEOLOGY
John Ruskin (1819-1900) philosopher and polymath wrote among many other things ‘The Seven Lamps of Architecture’ and ‘The Stones of Venice.’ In ‘The Seven Lamps […]
LEARNING AND EDUCATION
John Ruskin (1819-1900) philosopher and polymath wrote, “Education is the leading of human souls to what is best and making the best out of them. […]