As I contemplate the trajectory of culture, my heart feels heavy. I don’t know whether that should ever be the case, given the God whom we serve, but I feel weighed down by the sheer size of the task. Our vision at LifeGiving to become an outward-reaching community of disciples is perhaps more counter-cultural than … Continue reading »
I’m over at Provoketive this week with this post (a version of which some may have read before). Spiritual disciplines are activities in our power that we engage in to enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort. Dallas Willard in The Great Omission. There is something so true about this statement. Spiritual … Continue reading »
There’s so much I could share from the first few chapters of Dunn and Sundene’s Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults and, in time, I will blog in more detail on some of the bigger concepts of adultolescence as well as practices and rhythms for spiritual transformation. But time is short for writing this post right now … Continue reading »
This is the third post in a series of four which I wrote a while ago but didn’t want to post at the time. I’m not in the same place today that I was then; as a result, I’m tempted to edit the writing to soften or finesse it, but I’ve chosen not to! Though … Continue reading »
This is the second post in a series of four which I wrote a while ago but didn’t want to post at the time. I’m not in the same place today that I was then; as a result, I’m tempted to edit the writing to soften or finesse it, but I’ve chosen not to! Though … Continue reading »
This is the first post in a series of four which I wrote a while ago but didn’t want to post at the time. I’m not in the same place today that I was then; as a result, I’m tempted to edit the writing to soften or finesse it, but I’ve chosen not to! Though … Continue reading »
Why is the struggle so relentless? Because God wants to change us, and we don’t want to be changed. Not really, not the kind of change God wants. I mean really change. Not cosmetic surgery, but radical surgery – that’s what God’s after. He intends to reach down into the guts of our soul and rip the … Continue reading »
Sin is a gravity that causes us to underestimate our created purpose, our own personal destiny. We begin a trade-off and produce a life that is successful but not satisfying…sin is acting as a gravity. We have a sweet-spot passion that is meant for God’s purpose, but we don’t know what to do with it. … Continue reading »
I’ve just recently started writing for an online magazine called Provoketive, which is based in the U.S. It’s exciting to be published by someone else other than me(!) and what I’m writing for that site will go to a far wider – and different – audience than I have here. But, because what I plan … Continue reading »
I started this year feeling pretty lost in 2011. With only twenty goals on the conservative version of the list(!), I wasn’t really sure which way to turn. I was believing God for a year of new opportunities as I finished off my MA dissertation and turned my eyes to consider what God might have … Continue reading »
