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Showing posts with label 38.Journey.Growth.Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 38.Journey.Growth.Development. Show all posts
2022-07-04

Training to become our Strongest Self

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Lord of Life strengthen us in Spirit, body, and soul: With our mind, heart, and will in your loving control; So we can heal our world, and m...
2022-03-06

A Personal Relationship with Jesus?

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Recently a good friend of mine asked me a great question. He is a person of considerable spiritual depth and commitment to Christ, yet he ha...
2021-01-16

The Way of Christ is Progress

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Recently, as people on social media are wont to do, a long time friend of mine posted a really reductionistic meme about the "unchangin...
2021-01-10

Two kinds of Mystical Experience: Ecstasy and Emphasis

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Let all that you do be done in love. (1 Corinthians 16:14) There are at least two kinds of mystical experience of God: Ecstasy and Emphasis...
2020-12-31

My First Dark Night of the Soul

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The year 2020 has been a Dark Night for so many people in many ways: Material, Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, Social. Since it is coming to a...
2020-12-28

All Yang no yin

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Proclaim Hope and you are adored.  Explain despair and you are ignored.  Preach Meaning and be applauded.  Examine meaninglessness and be cr...
2020-07-25

28 Summers

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28 summers ago I fell in love with Jesus Not all at once But a growing awareness Starting with a desperate deal Heal my life Jesus! And I wi...
2020-05-25

The Pentecostal Promise

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When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the ru...
2019-11-04

To control people, control their stories

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" Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and ap...
2019-09-16

Live Wire

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All of them were taken into ecstasy and they glorified God. Indeed they were awestruck and kept saying “we have seen strange signs today!...
2019-08-13

On the Nature of Sainthood

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What makes someone a “saint” as opposed to someone who is just popular and persuasive and affable? What makes someone genuinely deep rath...
2017-02-01

Wondervoyage: The Antidote to Affluenza

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As a host of media pundits and cultural critics have noted over the past several years, many of today’s young adults suffer from a debili...
2014-01-14

My Moses Year Begins

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Moses wonders what he has gotten himself into, and if there is a return policy on stone tablets. Today marks my entrance into the ...
2013-06-03

The Perfectly Imperfect Journey

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"Although Christ was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God as something to be held onto, but emptied himself, tak...
2013-03-26

Why Biblical Christians need Biological Evolution

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Over the last few years in educational ministry, I have continually had questions asked about, discussions over, and even debates because...
2005-10-10

My theological history

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When I get in discussions and debates with people, they often call me by a label that I think is completely off base.  Fundamentalists call ...
2005-08-06

Will Nate ever go Catholic?

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A friend of a friend named Matt ( check his blog here ) sent me an email after reading my blog the other day. In it, he asked me a rather bl...
2005-08-01

Form, Deform, Reform, Conform, Inform, Transform

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My friend Brett has posted an article about spiritual growth and being "conformed" to Christ. It is posted here . There is a rich,...
2005-06-20

So this priest and two monks walk into a delivery room...

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The following article is a re-publication of an essay on fatherhood I posted to my daughter's website. The website is defunct, but my da...
2005-01-13

Are we there yet?

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We've all been there. It's the big yearly mission trip to (fill in the blank), and you have been driving the 15 passenger van for a...