Is it possble to live an “unsurrendered” life as a Christian?
The short answer – no. A remarkable piece of Christianity is the concept that we must surrender our lives up. It is a surrendering however to God in a way that helps us to uncover our true selves. It...
View ArticleFacing What You Absolutely Cannot Overcome
Evil is illusion. It has no “reality” per se in much the same way that darkness is nothing in and of itself but instead is the absence of light. That being said, boy, at times it sure feels...
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Above all else, avoid success
Thomas Merton famously wrote, “”Be anything you want. Be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form. But at all costs avoid one thing: success.” One must smile at the sentiment behind his...
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We only can pray for what we have experienced
Here is a unique thought around prayer: “God seems to plant within us the desire to pray for what God already wants to give us, and even better, God has already begun to give to us! We are always...
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Letting Go
There are few more powerful spiritual tools than “repentance.” Going back to the Greek word “metanoia”, it means essentially to turn around, to change one’s mind. That turning entails a candid self...
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Two Faced. Who Me?
Two faced. Who me? Yes you. And me. The human condition always presents a mixed bag. As a private school administrator, I took a group of secondary school males on an overnight to a local camp. We...
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Church as an Invitation not an Institution
We live in an era popularized by the phrase “spiritual but not religious.” I imagine for many the connotation is a movement away from institutional forms of religion to more personalized,...
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