BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
Jesus delivered this parable in Luke’s gospel, “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?” He is […]
September 2017
POVERTY OF SOUL
The trouble with poverty is that it is human, not Godly. Spiritual poverty is not human poverty. The spiritual poverty I am talking about is […]
MUCH LESS DONE
The very clever author Anne Lamott writes in ‘Traveling Mercies,’ “Coming out of the movie, I realized that I want what the crones have: time […]
THE WILD GOOSE
The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by George MacLeod, is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions within Christianity. […]
SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS
“Spiritual direction is the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their own […]
TRINITY THOUGHTS
Frederick Buechner writes, “The much maligned doctrine of the Trinity is an assertion that, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, there is only one God. Father, Son, […]
BURNING BUSH MOMENTS
“Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the […]
THE BURNING LAMP
Jesus said in The Sermon the Mount, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people […]
THE SECRET
The secret to following Jesus is to follow Jesus. I don’t think there are any shortcuts or trouble-free methods on doing this. A disciple by […]
MAKING THE SHIFT
There has been a long history of teaching and preaching concerning what I call the Gospel of Salvation. This is basically only telling the listeners […]