Tuesday we begin a new year of inspiring you to lead from overflow. But before we do that, let’s look back at our Top 10 posts of 2014. It’s a great time to refresh your memory or check out something you missed. Enjoy! Knowing Jesus Give the Gift of Listening How Do I Love the […]
How Christ Understood Prayer
?Christ?s understanding of the nature of prayer accentuates both its importance and its intellectual difficulties. In both His teaching and His practice, prayer is understood as utterly different from talk about God, for prayer is talk with God.? (Elton Trueblood. A Place to Stand. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969, p. 83.) The little […]
My Finest Gift I Bring
This year Christmas songs are pouring into every inch of our cozy, ministry-provided home. (Pandora Station, Christmas Hymns.) I turn up the volume so I can hear the tunes upstairs or downstairs and as I go about my tasks and projects. At times I hum or sing along, enjoying the reminders of this season of […]
How Competent Are You?
What makes me feel competent or incompetent in my life or my work? One dictionary describes competence as ?adequacy; possession of required skill, knowledge, qualification, or capacity; sufficiency; a sufficient quantity.? Competence is an enough word. It means having what I need to do the work I have been given. There was a time when […]
Allow God to Love You
The following quote?comes from?Abb? Henri de Tourville (1842-1903), who was ordained as a French priest in 1873. His two most noteworthy proteges were Baron Friedrich Von H?gel and Charles de Foucauld (spiritual father of the ?Little Brothers of Jesus,? an order that Brennan Manning was part of earlier in his ministry). I love the simple […]
Give the Gift of Listening
“Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference.? (David of Augsburg) A truly good listener is hard to find. ?Have you ever been with someone, and as they listened to you, you felt as though you were the only person in the room?? The person listening had […]
A Simple Strategy for Dealing with Depression
A book that I?ve found practically helpful on the theme of contemplative prayer is Martin Laird?s A Sunlit Absence. At one point, he mentions a man who wrestled with depression for some time, and finally found help in contemplative prayer. I have found myself struggling at times with seasons of depression. I?ve discovered that […]
