By Chaplain Mike 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 ownContinue reading “Show Me the Way to Go Home”
Category Archives: Spiritual Formation
The Heart of the Kingdom
By Chaplain Mike “The kingdom vision of Jesus is a kingdom filled up with people who are noted by one word: love.” (One.Life, p. 48) The Apostle Paul put it this way: “For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faithContinue reading “The Heart of the Kingdom”
Embracing God’s Dream
By Chaplain Mike This week, in addition to the daily “Stations of the Cross” posts, I will lead us in considering ideas from some good books I am reading. We will continue exploring James Davison Hunter’s brilliant, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. In addition,Continue reading “Embracing God’s Dream”
Lenten Meditation
By Chaplain Mike Doggone it! I hate when life gets in the way of blogging! This week’s “Friday with the Fathers” has morphed into “Saturday with the Fathers.” Our consideration of The Epistle of Barnabas will be posted tomorrow afternoon. Until then, consider this Lenten quote from Joan Chittister from her wonderful book, The LiturgicalContinue reading “Lenten Meditation”
Repenting of a Political Mindset
By Chaplain Mike NOTE: Either I have communicated poorly or my use of the word “political” has thrown some of you off in terms of the focus of this post. I am using the words “politics” and “political” in their more informal, secondary sense in what follows. Dictionary.com includes the following definitions: politics = anyContinue reading “Repenting of a Political Mindset”
Let Me Restate That…A Rant Clarified
By Chaplain Mike Yesterday, a spirited discussion ensued regarding my “Rant as a Loser of the Worship Wars.” I think many of the comments missed the point of the post. So I thought I’d post a clarification. I hope this makes the most important aspects of what I was trying to say clear. When IContinue reading “Let Me Restate That…A Rant Clarified”
To Do or Not to Do
We’ve had a lot of good discussion recently. Jeff Dunn wrote about the extravagance of grace, about the freedom from the jail of death and sin that Jesus gives us. Many of you appreciated his expression of the Good News; you applauded his refusal to compromise with the legalists, who always want there to beContinue reading “To Do or Not to Do”
Reorientation: Quickened Again, In Every Holt and Heath
By Chaplain Mike When April with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower; When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath, Quickened again, in every holt and heath, The tender shoots andContinue reading “Reorientation: Quickened Again, In Every Holt and Heath”
Disorientation: The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter
By Chaplain Mike What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no soundContinue reading “Disorientation: The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter”
Orientation: All’s Right with the World
By Chaplain Mike The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in His heaven — All ‘s right with the world! • Robert Browning, “Pippa’s Song” When we are walking through seasons of orientation, life isContinue reading “Orientation: All’s Right with the World”
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