Here is a wonderful quotation?from Frank Laubach, who was the last century?s Brother Lawrence in modeling a lifestyle of practicing the presence of God. ?Last year, as you know, I decided to try to keep God in mind all the time. That was rather easy for a lonesome man in a strange land. It has […]
How Do I Love the Wounded?
My wife and I are not what you would term animal people, by any stretch of the imagination. For years our kids asked for a dog and we quickly dismissed their constant pleading. However, one year ago my family adopted a six-month-old yellow lab-mix. We named her Nala because she reminded us of the lioness, […]
When God Seems Absent
There are days, even seasons, when God feels more absent than present. If you?ve been a follower of Jesus for any length of time you?ve experienced this. I appreciate this extended counsel from Eugene Peterson about this common spiritual experience: ?The experienced absence or silence of God for the over four hundred years preceding the […]
Repentance: A Work of Grace
?[Repentance] must be done by the work of God, the work of grace. It is a divine gift. But if the gift be rare, it is not because of any [stinginess] on the part of an infinitely liberal God. It is because of our fear, our blindness, our ignorance, our hatred of risk. For after […]
Whose Kingdom Come?
Eugene Peterson, in
Prayer: Contemplative Intercession
I?ve written in other posts about my liturgy of morning prayer (Resource for a Rhythm of Prayer for example). Some have asked me to share about how I arrange the way I pray for others. There are a lot of people in my family and in my ministry who matter to me and for whom […]
Impatience: True Confessions of an Impatient Man
Years ago, my Uncle Kevin would bring me the weirdest ?presents.? One year, it was an old fluorescent tube light for an RV with wires hanging out. I could make it work by sticking the wires into the electrical outlet. Another time, it was half of an old 8-mm video camera that he said I […]
