Archive for February, 2005
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
The driving motivation behind the creation of a Christian subculture in America has been the issue of relevancy. We have wanted to make ourselves relevant to the world around us so that the gospel can be understood in terms that are common to the day. There is nothing wrong with this as long as we [...]
Saturday, February 19th, 2005
“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the [...]
Sunday, February 13th, 2005
Love: to act for the benefit of another—visibly, practically and intentionally.
I talked to an old farmer and mill worker moments ago. George was his name. He asked me about house churches and remarked about the need for simplicity. He told of a renowned theologian who was asked about the most profound truth he had discovered. [...]
Sunday, February 6th, 2005
Meditation looks for peace in the isolation of the soul.
Prayer finds peace in the communion of the spirit.
Isolation and desolation are brothers.
Communion and completion are Father and child.
Friday, February 4th, 2005
Seems to me that God has given all of us the need to belong, to have “a people†to belong to. Those without belonging have a hole in their soul that bleeds. Some build facades to mask the deficit. Sociopaths suture the wound with anger and aggression. Others default to fear and isolation—sociophobes.
What should be [...]
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
“But the real fear is what we would do if we took off our masks and discovered that we had no faces?â€
I’ve been reading a book called The Transforming Friendship by James Houston in which he puts that question. I think it has much to say—this question, specifically— to me as a Christ-follower. Do [...]
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