Whenever I need to be reminded of the unconditional, unearned grace of God, I read Brennan Manning. Today, this was his gift to me: "My message, unchanged for more than fifty years, is this: God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It […]
Grace, my friends … grace! Robert Capon writes: “The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism … a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof GRACE – bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which could convince […]
So many questions these days about the Bible, and what certain parts of it mean … Know what? I don’t have that many answers. The Bible remains a mystery to me … Occasionally, I think I catch a glimpse of truth. But mostly, I remain humbly confused. In awe … but confused. Drawn to it […]
“We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God – which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but his descent […]
Thinking a lot about gratitude these days … Some mornings I am just undone with how much I have to be thankful for. It almost hurts sometimes. Do you know what I mean? So, I thank God. I try to keep an attitude of gratefulness going all day. Reminds me of this bit of wisdom: […]
Doing some reading for our Way of Life class tomorrow, and stumbled on Anne Lamott’s definition of grace: “It is unearned love – the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It’s the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered […]
