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Month: May 2017

Posted on May 29, 2017April 11, 2017

I hate journaling…

Let’s just get out of the way up front, I don’t like journaling.  It’s not that I don’t think that it is beneficial or helpful.  Nor do I think that it is a waste of time.  It is that journaling seems “unnatural” to me.  I have tried many times to undertake the discipline of journaling, …

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Posted on May 27, 2017

Standing in the Fire: Courageous Christians Living in Frightening Times

Standing in the Fire: Courageous Christians Living in Frightening Times by Tom Doyle My rating: 4 of 5 stars What a treat this book was! I heard Tom Doyle on the Voice of the Martyrs podcast (vomradio.com) and his stories so enchanted me I had to get the book. I was not disappointed. I actually …

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Posted on May 22, 2017April 11, 2017

On withdrawing form the culture…

This concept of spiritual growth is faulty for several reasons.  First, it neglects the second of the most important commandments, to love others as we love ourselves.  Loving is a doing verb – it implies, in fact, necessitates action.  Loving others requires us to go outside of our spiritual bunker.  By loving others, we can …

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Posted on May 15, 2017April 11, 2017

Suffering as a discipline

This threw me at first.  Aren’t disciplines something we should seek to do?  Aren’t they actions that we do to develop our spiritual lives?  Well, yeah, they are.  And when I have read that suffering is a spiritual discipline, it took me a while to think and ponder on it, but it made sense.  Disciplines help to …

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Posted on May 8, 2017April 11, 2017

On Consumer Christianity…

“Consumer Christianity” does not offer deep answers to deep problems.  Fast food offers a quick fill up of the belly with little to no nutritional value.  In fact, eat fast food with regularity and you will find that your health will fail.  The same is true with our spiritual life.  Having a life of transformation …

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