Let me put this question to you: How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off to please God? Or was it by responding to God’s Message to you? Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what wasContinue reading “Another Look: Show Me the Way to Go Home”
Category Archives: Exploration of the Self
Another Look: Moving
Note from CM: As I’ve mentioned, we’ve been in the process of moving. We’re in our new house now, but there’s a lot of work to do before we really get settled. It’s a bit sobering to realize this may be our last move. I will be writing more about this in days to come,Continue reading “Another Look: Moving”
iMonk Classic: I Have My Doubts
Note from CM: Here is one of Michael’s all-time best posts, a classic example of why people loved and listened to him. He spoke as a human being to other human beings. Our Christian faith doesn’t permit us to skip the “human” part, though many of its practitioners advertise it in precisely those terms. InContinue reading “iMonk Classic: I Have My Doubts”
A Few of the Many Quotes that Shape My Life
A Few of the Many Quotes that Shape My Life • • • All Spirituality is Living and Local So—spiritual theology, lived theology—not just studied, or discussed, or written about; not “God” as an abstraction but God in a participating relationship; not God as a truth to be argued; not God as a weapon toContinue reading “A Few of the Many Quotes that Shape My Life”
Fridays with Damaris: Another Look – Filled with Passionate Intensity
Filled with Passionate Intensity By Damaris Zehner Does anyone else cringe when they hear the over-used word “passion”? “What’s your passion?” — “I have a passion for — something.” — “I’m so passionate about that.” I don’t think these people know what they’re really saying. Bear with me here. I’m launching into a history ofContinue reading “Fridays with Damaris: Another Look – Filled with Passionate Intensity”
Another Look: If You Are Not Afraid, You Are Not Human
Hello. My name is Mike, and I am afraid. I am afraid of life, and I am afraid of life’s end. I am afraid of being alone, and I am afraid of being with people. I am afraid of hatred and I am afraid of love. Truth and beauty frighten me even as I delightContinue reading “Another Look: If You Are Not Afraid, You Are Not Human”
Waiting to Live
Most of my life, I’ve been waiting to live. The pattern has been like this: seasons of thinking about what it means to live and waiting to live and hoping to live, interrupted by moments of living. I’ve spent most of my days thinking about life, pondering what will enable me to live. Hoping forContinue reading “Waiting to Live”
Fridays with Michael Spencer: Feb. 24, 2017
Sometimes someone else’s sins become the light of seeing our own. Several years ago I was working with a particularly difficult young church staff member. His pattern was to do everything his way, and when negative consequences arrived, to be completely defensive. Insight into his own character wasn’t much of an interest. Finding others guiltyContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: Feb. 24, 2017”
Daniel Jepsen: Loving God According to our Personality
Loving God According to our Personality By Daniel Jepsen I struggled with this title; the term personality is more elastic than a spandex jumpsuit, and the phrase loving God is not much more definitive. But my main point is this: We rightly express our devotion to God differently than other people because of the uniqueContinue reading “Daniel Jepsen: Loving God According to our Personality”
Why We Had Merton Week (with more such “weeks” to come)
Why We Had Merton Week (with more such “weeks” to come) A couple of weeks ago I hit the wall. I’ll spare you the gory details, but let’s just say I exhausted my capacity to concentrate and to speak without setting on fire the room around me. I remember when this happened back in 2011.Continue reading “Why We Had Merton Week (with more such “weeks” to come)”
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