The Disciples’ Dilemma: When Knowledge Gets in the Way of Knowing
The great danger for the disciples of Jesus, then and now, is to become too prideful to admit that our knowing (experience) has not caught up with our knowledge.
The great danger for the disciples of Jesus, then and now, is to become too prideful to admit that our knowing (experience) has not caught up with our knowledge.
Compassion is not what we do with our loose change. It’s a way of being deeply attuned to other people, seeing past their need and into their nature.
Boundaries are not about protecting ourselves from people. Healthy boundaries prepare us for people.
Marriage is not about marriage. Marriage is about God. For those of us who are married, we need to make our own marriage matter by making our marriage about God.
There is no higher authority than the authority of Jesus, and he entrusts it to his followers. Are you in touch with this possibility in your own life?
To minister in the way of Jesus means we share in his authority to speak words of power and blessing into the lives of others.
Learning to see people as God sees them means I can never label them according to their suffering. I must see them as sons and daughters.
While my understanding of such realities continues to grow, my faith in the biblical revelation of the nature of reality, past, present and future; visible and invisible remains as fixed as the sun.
The Holy Spirit through the person of Jesus, and now through the Body of Christ, walks right into the midst of the darkest places, into the most impossible situations and hopeless causes and sets captives free.