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December 31, 2021 Living in the Tension Even if resolutions aren't your thing, the New Year still offers an opportunity to reorient our lives toward the Kingdom of God. Some folks find it to be a good time to create or tweak a rule of…

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September 10, 2021 The Iceberg On a societal level, there are political and racial hostilities that erupt into angry speech and violent action. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Holy Spirit, help us discern what’s beneath the…

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August 13, 2021 Does God Laugh at Our Plans? It's possible to make grace-empowered progress in the spiritual life. But we do need an openhanded, God-surrendered plan.

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October 18, 2019 Learning to See Seeing—really seeing, first-hand seeing—is necessary for compassion; and compassion leads, if we're willing, to action.

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September 6, 2019 What About Charismania? But what about "charismania"? There is certainly some strange stuff out there that, as a friend says, “ain’t the Lord.” Fabrications and abuses can be formidable obstacles to thoughtful people…

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July 9, 2019 Summer 2019 Update When seasons change, you wonder if things will ever be the way they used to be. They won't, of course. One never steps in the same river twice. But thankfully the new river can be as refreshing as…

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June 7, 2019 Still Good His life was a seamless garment of contemplative prayer and loving action, showing us that the physical and the spiritual are never in competition. The material world he helped speak into existence…

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February 8, 2019 Joy-Strength Like love and peace, joy is a fruit of the Spirit. Duct taping an apple to a stick doesn’t make it an apple tree. Likewise, joy can’t be tacked on. It has to be cultivated and grown. How?…

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October 5, 2018 Don’t Lose Heart When affliction is upon us it feels neither light nor momentary. I'm thinking today of those undergoing surgeries, those making difficult decisions about loved ones, those battling depression and…

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June 8, 2018 Can Intellectual and Spiritual Mix? Sometimes the intellectual life and spiritual life are needlessly pitted against one another. Dallas Willard reconciles the two in a timeless speech commending college graduates to embrace Jesus'…

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May 13, 2022 Becoming Who We Already Are in Christ At the moment we decide to follow Jesus we are given the seed of new life. It is something real that didn’t exist in us before. While the miracle of growth is the work of God, cooperating with God in…