Lent 2012: A Journey through the Wilderness Wandering the Wilderness of Falsity “Our false selves are the identities we cultivate in order to function in society with pride and self-possession; our real selves are a deep religious mystery, known entirely only to God.”—Thomas Merton I don’t know why this is such revelation to me. You’d think aContinue reading “Wandering the Wilderness of Falsity”
Category Archives: Lisa Dye
Another Look: Destruction: God’s Alien Work
Lent 2012: A Journey through the Wilderness Destruction: God’s Alien Work (Lisa Dye) • • • “The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task …” • Isaiah 28:21Continue reading “Another Look: Destruction: God’s Alien Work”
Dissident Discipleship: A Book Overview
Recently I read the book Dissident Discipleship by David Augsburger. He wrote it in 2006, but I think his topic is evergreen: What makes someone a true disciple of Jesus? Augsburger tells it from an Anabaptist perspective. Once we give assent to Christ’s lordship, recognize the necessity for and effectiveness of his shed blood to atoneContinue reading “Dissident Discipleship: A Book Overview”
Another Look: David And The Rich Young Ruler
Oswald Chambers asks, “Are you more devoted to your idea of what Jesus wants than to Himself?” Yes, Lord, I am. I will admit that my answer came so readily because God’s been hammering away at me for months to get me to see the distinction in a personal way. How often I pick theContinue reading “Another Look: David And The Rich Young Ruler”
Desertion
“There is no way of piercing faith to its very marrow like the sticking of the arrow of desertion into it; this finds it out whether it be of immortals or no.” —C.H. Spurgeon “Immortals or no …” I’ll just tell you right off that I feel as if I fall firmly into theContinue reading “Desertion”
Destruction: God’s Alien Work
“The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task …” • Isaiah 28:21 “What is more alien to salvation than destruction? And yet this is what Christ does toContinue reading “Destruction: God’s Alien Work”
My Problem With God’s Will
“God’s will is a profound and holy mystery, and the fact that we live our everyday lives engulfed in this mystery should not lead us to underestimate its holiness. We dwell in the will of God as in a sanctuary … it takes the humility and spiritual poverty to travel in darkness and uncertainty, whereContinue reading “My Problem With God’s Will”
Love Makes Us
“God, loving what is not yet and putting faith in us, continually begets us, since love is what begets.†— Carlo Carretto If love is what makes us, then we all, at least in the infinite mind of God, are fully made because God so loved the world. Why then do we often feel undone,Continue reading “Love Makes Us”
The Thirteenth Station: Jesus’ Body is Removed From the Cross
Scripture “Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs ofContinue reading “The Thirteenth Station: Jesus’ Body is Removed From the Cross”
The Eleventh Station: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross
Scripture “They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull). Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. And they crucified him …†(Mark 15:22-24, with references in Meditation to Genesis 22:1-18, Zechariah 13:1, Matthew 27:33-44, Mark 15:22-32, Luke 23:32-43, John 19:18-24, 2Continue reading “The Eleventh Station: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross”
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