For a quickened 9:06 video or audio file. A couple days ago, I read two articles by writers who were describing their own anxiety, anger, depression, and grieving over what is happening to our country politically and to the planet ecologically. Upon awakening this morning, I began thinking about my …
The fact, law, and love of God unfolding
Today I recommend the 7:33 video. Here's the audio file. The family of God is like a man who had horses and trained the young ones to carry a rider by taking them out and whenever they were frightened, he would stop turn around, get off the horse, and allow the horse to become fully …
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Saved by a child’s faith
The blogpost approaches the topic somewhat differently than do the 9:20 video and audio file. As the prophet Jeremiah sees the destruction of Jerusalem coming, his soul laments in a purity and depth that have a lesson for us today. His lament, his grieving, his sadness, is so free of anger, so …
Feeling: Mozart, Jesus, and evolution
Imagine a school of feeling that cultivates sensitive responses to the full spectrum of varieties of beauty--actual and potential. There are courses in the arts that enable us to say more than wow, cool, awesome, amazing, it feels so good. Listening to a Mozart piano concerto, seeing a Rodin …
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What a way to start the day!
To start the day with worship! The ambitious desire to worship blocks it, but the will that worships . . . goes forth . . . may find itself knocking on the door . . . and being caught up like a bird circling higher and higher on an updraft along the side of a mountain. Worship in the mystery of the …
Peace regarding atonement
The followers of Jesus are scattered around the world in this group and that group. We are not unified in love and service. We face serious competition from secularism. Just think what could happen if we were to be unified. In order for that to happen we would need spiritual unity, because …
