Today I read Faith and Other Flat Tires by Andrea Palpant Dilley. Dilley grew up the daughter of Quaker missionaries in Kenya and then spent her college years at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington.After studying at Whitworth Dilley left the church and went searching in the company of men and booze. She pushed the boundariesContinueContinue reading “A missionary kid leaves the faith and then doubts her way back to faith”
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There is a road that leads to true peace … prayer
“A peacemaker,” writes Henri Nouwen in The Road to Peace, “prays. Peace is a gift we receive in prayer. … Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal for all peacemaking. I say this without apology, because it allows me toContinueContinue reading “There is a road that leads to true peace … prayer”
Do you really think everyone will like you?
1. Jesus loves me.2. Not everyone likes me.3. Still, I should be who God made me to be, and so should you.Here’s why…John 7 (New International Version, ©2010) 1 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want[a] to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to killContinueContinue reading “Do you really think everyone will like you?”
Here’s why we ask the Spirit to read our heart!
1. The reason that this verse …Proverbs 4:23 (New International Version, ©2010)23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. … is so vital, so utterly crucial to life is because2. … it is so easy to follow our own religious ideas without thinking.Matthew 15 (The Message)1-2 After that, PhariseesContinueContinue reading “Here’s why we ask the Spirit to read our heart!”
Straying thoughts when trying to prayer
In case you wondered, you’re not the only person whose thoughts have ever strayed when trying to connect with God. Here’s the prayer of a 9th century Irish priest…Shame on my thoughts, how they stray from me! I fear great danger from this on the day of eternal judgment. During the psalms they wander onContinueContinue reading “Straying thoughts when trying to prayer”
Why we do what we do and why do we respond the way we do?
I was talking with a pastor this week and asked him what motivated him. It was clear he wants to be loved and accepted for his work in the kingdom. Being liked really motivates him. Others are motivated by being right or being in control. There are weaknesses to both sides. Overemphasizing love can leadContinueContinue reading “Why we do what we do and why do we respond the way we do?”
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