Quotes —
Psalm 13
How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and everyday have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?Look on me and answer, O Lord my God. Give light to [...]
“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity [...]
my true self blogger jennifer created this video. This video and her blog reveals a lot of pain and honesty as well as providing some serious issues the church needs to deal with.
“One of the gravest threats to the North American church is the
deception of power—the deception of being at the center. Those at the
center tend to think, ‘The future belongs to us. We are the shapers of
tomorrow. The process of gospel transmission, the process of
mission—all of it is on our terms, because we are powerful, because [...]
“God’s church has traditionally been more beautiful when it lives out its mission from the margins of society.” -David Zac Niringiye (Uganda)
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“We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. Craving, clutching and fussing, we are kept in perpetual unrest.” -Evelyn Underhill
For the past four years I have been gradually learning that my spiritual life and accountability to God influence the way I live my life beyond the black and white morality issues. It includes daily decisions involving healthy living and environmental responsibility. We must realize that simple decisions unknowingly have results that help [...]
“We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. Craving, clutching and fussing, we are kept in perpetual unrest.†-Evelyn Underhill
I would have liked to see this reality show. Five men from secular lifestyles enter into a Benedictine monastery and follow the strict timetable of instruction, study, prayer, reflection and routine work duties. They include a producer of trailers for a sex chat line, a painter/decorator with a criminal past, a high-earning bachelor, [...]
I believe I am becoming a pacifist. I have always been uncomfortable with war and the pain and suffering it brings, but have thought that it was necessary at times. While I still think that for the most part, I am encountering material on pacifism. Right now I am reading “Passion for [...]