Attentive to God
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Growth, Theology, Uncategorized | No Comments »This is a sight test! Look around the area where you are now sitting, probably a familiar scene. Look hard. Look until you find something you've never noticed before. Go ahead, try it. Look until you can say, "I never ...
Three Ways of Looking at Jesus
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Growth, Spirituality | No Comments »Author and pastor John Ortberg spoke at the recent REVEAL conference that I attended at Willow Creek church near Chicago. He described three places we can be on our spiritual journey when it comes to Jesus Christ. Some people are admirers ...
Disappearing Money
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Growth, Uncategorized | No Comments »Last Saturday Diann and I received in the mail our regular financial update of our retirement/pension/investment funds. The figures were not pretty! From January of this year to the end of September (note: this does not even include what happened ...
The “Gift of Noticing”
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Growth, Spirituality | No Comments »Suart McAllister writes, "Bill Smith, a friend of mine, often exhorts people to cultivate the 'gift of noticing.' By this he means actively looking for God's presence and grace in the everyday things we often ignore... when we work at ...
Disillusionment with People
Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Fellowship, Growth | No Comments »Are you ever disillusioned with people? Silly question, right? Of course we all have been disillusioned with people at one time or another, perhaps even today! I'm reading through Oswald Chambers' classic devotional My Utmost for His Highest, and today's reflection ...
Stoking a Holy Fire Within
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Fellowship, Growth | No Comments »How do you put out a campfire? You kick the sticks, the logs, and the embers to spread them out. How do you stoke a fire? You pile up and push together the sticks, the logs, and the embers. Remove one of ...
Exercising Faith
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Growth | No Comments »There seems to be only one way to build stronger muscles, and that's by exercising them, which means pushing them beyond the point where they start complaining to us. It's not fun! It seems to me that exercising faith presents us ...
Addicted to the Spectacular
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Growth, Spirituality | No Comments »J. I. Packer references something fellow author Dallas Willard wrote with the theme of being "addicted to the spectacular." I found the phrase intriguing -- "being addicted to the spectacular." Earlier Packer refers to it as "lusting after the spectacular." We ...
Continuing Our Conversion
Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in Growth, Spirituality | No Comments »"Conversion is a process" writes Kathleen Norris in her book Amazing Grace: a Vocabulary of Faith. It's a good reminder for all of us. Frequently we think of conversion to Christ as an event. There's that moment when a person ...
Delayed Gratification of a Divine Order
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in A Sense of Call, Growth | 1 Comment »I'm writing this on Wednesday morning because I'll be in surgery for the removal of my gall bladder this afternoon (1:30). I appreciate your prayers! It's rather strange preparing for surgery and hospitalization (hopefully, just one night) when I feel perfectly ...
