The opposite of fear is love. Fear is self-centeredness. Love is self-giving. The only way to finally destroy fear is in community. (Tim Keller, sermon on praying fears).
Archive for June, 2009
Timothy Keller
Posted in Community, Fear, Love, Selfishness on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Donald Miller
Posted in God, Identity on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What if our value exists because God takes pleasure in us? (Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What)
Lauren Winner
Posted in Brokenness, Prayer on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
God doesn’t just turn up when you page Him. He is right where He always is, and what regular, daily-maybe-twice prayer gives us is some more hint of just where that is, and how to get there, and one of the things liturgy gives us is a way to get there when all our other [...]
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Prayer on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We prepare to pray not by composing our prayers, but ourselves. (Eugene Peterson, Answering God)
Donald Miller
Posted in Brokenness, Gospel, Identity, Jesus Christ on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But if the gospel of Jesus is relational; that is, if our brokenness will be fixed, not by our understanding of theology, but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy which only heaven knows… Perhaps this is what the apostles stumbled upon. (Donald Miller, Searching for God [...]
Lauren Winner
Posted in Holy Spirit on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe that is what the Holy Spirit does. Maybe he silences all the voices in our head that keep us from hearing God. (Lauren Winner, Girl Meets God)
Donald Miller
Posted in God, Mystery, Wonder, Worship on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder [...]
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Church, Commitment, Community, Discipleship, Faith, Religion, Sex, Spirituality, Worship on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shun spirituality that does not require commitment. Personal commitment to the God personally revealed in Jesus is at the heart of spirituality. Faddish spiritualities, within or without the church, ignore or deny commitment…
Spirituality without commitment is analogous to sexuality without commitment—quick and casual, superficial and impersonal, selfish and loveless—eventually a parody of its initial [...]
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