Month: July 2011
Losing Our Lives
“As long as we cling to life as we understand it, we cling to a pinched and deadly image of things, an image heavily conditioned by our egos, our social programming, our limited knowledge of the options. But when we are willing to let go of life as we want it to be and allow ...
Scripture – A Place of Encounter
In continuing from yesterday’s post on reading the Bible for transformation, we discussed how to be transformed by Scripture we need to be less concerned with speed or volume or the gathering of more information but with depth and receptivity. The problem is we have been trained to be informational readers, not spiritual readers and ...
Reading the Bible for Transformation
I want to spend the next few days talking about our approach to Scripture. Scripture has the capacity to become for us a holy ground on which we actually meet with God. Yet, for most of us, in order to experience this, we will have to change our perspective or approach to it. Typically, we ...
Looking Back: Most Read Posts
I thought this might be a good time to re-look at some of my most read posts over the last 6 months in case you missed a few: A Quiet Transformation - How solitude develops in us a well-trained heart that keeps us in perfect peace in the midst of tragedy. Thoughts on Sabbath - An attitude ...
God of All Grace
Someone said it again this week. In speaking of a trial they were going through, they said, “Well, God must want me to learn something.” For sure, tragedy has a way of adjusting our perspective. Someone has said, “Deep suffering makes theologians of us all.” I am more and more convinced, however, that it is ...
Wonder of All Wonders
“Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.” Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, p. 205 In our longing to know God and walk in his ways, ...
Gail Johnsen 