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Missing the Point

July 27, 2017 1 Comment

When do I, in my magnanimous self-assurance, miss that God incarnate is right here with me?

The same traveling rabbi who offered a tender yoke to the down and out of his time makes the same offer to us today. If you’re tired of it all, if you somehow got yoked to a worrisome old dogma or doctrine, toss it off. That thing is not the yoke of Jesus. His yoke brings rest; it is an easy thing.

Speaking to the Soul: Being Real

June 2, 2017 No Comments

There is no one right way to go through life, but letting other’s define if we are ‘real’ enough is surely one of the wrongs we can do to ourselves.

Speaking to the Soul: Hearing and Believing

March 16, 2017 No Comments

In fact, Christ Pantocrator is a mirror. Gazing up at this image we discover that which most deeply defines us. We were created in this image – this is who we really are.

Speaking to the Soul: Storms of Fear

January 27, 2017 No Comments

“When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the

Speaking to the Soul: Rebuking the wind

January 20, 2017 No Comments

When the winds of our own fearful hearts and our unruly tongues are causing us to sink into ourselves, we are to rebuke it–and name it to God, and ask how we are to live differently.

Speaking to the Soul: Pouring Ourselves Out

January 19, 2017 No Comments

We are not meant for security, we are meant for love.

Speaking to the Soul: Another Article about Prayer

January 18, 2017 6 Comments

I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven…

Speaking to the Soul: Get Ready

January 15, 2017 3 Comments

The forces of evil will have won if we become so involved in what has been done to us, or what might happen in the future, that we forget how to be joyful servants in God’s kingdom today.

Speaking to the Soul: Two Kinds of Power

January 11, 2017 No Comments

I sometimes strain to see the reign of God, the “yeast action,” at work in my country these days. Even many who name themselves Christian incarnate values of denigration, domination, greed, division, baseness, and every form of oppression, mostly notably racism.

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