i never was much of an evangelist. i have re-dedicated my life to Christ more times than i can count, but 1990 is when my walk with God got more intense and i think i actually stopped raising my hand when they did the altar call. i more clearly and offically became an evangelical christian and learned […]
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“if you judge people you have no time to love them” – mother teresa “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” – Jesus one of my favorite passages of scripture is in john 8, where Jesus protects a woman from the justice-seeking crowd by radically turning the tables on them, calling them […]
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this post is part of a synchroblog (a group of bloggers writing on the same topic at the same time. check out their links at the bottom of this post) put together by my blog-friend-on-the-journey glenn hager. the topic is called the revolutionaries synchroblog and you can read more about it here, but the basic […]
Read Moretoday is a new day
today is a new day. you can start fresh, wipe the slate clean and begin again. that’s the first statement on this really lovely poster i have at my house that jen lemen created for cool people care. i bought it for a few friends last fall. i framed one for me, too, and i look at […]
Read Morethe shack
lots of people have been reading the shack these days, especially those in blogland where word is on the street. what i am finding, though, is many people have never heard of it. it hasn’t made its way into the mainstream yet, but i definitely have a sense that its on its way there. i am […]
Read Morethe tortoise and the hare
remember this aesop’s fable? with five kids i have read my share over the years…the stories are really timeless and profound in more ways than one. a few weeks ago the story of the tortoise and the hare came back onto my scan, and i have been thinking about it a lot. at our house of refuge […]
Read Morefriday-saturday-sunday living
for the past few weeks at the refuge we have been walking through the days of easter weekend. we put ourselves in the cycle of these three days, starting with friday–the night Jesus was crucified–with a look at death. then we moved to saturday, the day after, when the sorrow, shock, and lament at […]
Read Morewhy prepositions matter
my friends know a lot about incarnational relationships. in the trenches at milehigh ministries, they are passionate about all the same stuff i am. a few weeks ago they facilitated our sunday refuge gathering and shared about the spiritual discipline of incarnational relationships. the official word in the richard foster books would be “service and […]
Read Morea little re-post here, a little link there
instead of re-creating the wheel, i thought i’d just pass on a few other posts from the refuge and the collage workshop i went to this past weekend. the refuge post is about some of the marks of authentic community & some of the things we are passionate about. you can check it out here. jenny […]
Read Morethe power of the ordinary
this past week i stumbled on a quote at my friend makeesha’s blog by shane claiborne (one of my favorite voices for change in the kingdom of God). claiborne said”: “get ready, people, God has prepared you for something really, really small!” oh i know that will really get the goats of so many people who […]
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