“Every Lent I remind myself that Jesus did not ask Peter, James, and John to subscribe to a set of theological propositions, not did he want them to feel anything. He asked them to follow, to decide to get up from what they were doing and go with him. That’s what Christian faith means.” John [...]
http://upperroom.org/methodx/thelife/test.asp Then tell me about it!
“The God we choose to love changes us into his image, whether he exists or not.” from Michael Gerson in “How God Changes Your Brain.”
He is on my bus only occasionally, a worn man in crumpled clothing with disheveled hair. His life looks different from the rest of ours. We are mostly middle income. His face is etched with exhaustion and he carries virtually no belongings. We drive ourselves to the parking lot. He appears along a busy road [...]
The Rev. jim Winkler, General Secretary of the Board on Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, along with ten others, was arrested last night in our nation’s capital. They were arrested because they staged a faith-based protest over the farce going on between Republicans, Democrats, and Tea Partyers over raising the debt ceiling. [...]
Two weeks ago, Judy and I, along with two couples from our church, visited Salt Lake City, where we toured Temple Square. The grounds were lush with gorgeous flowers, immaculately maintained, and the buildings were breath-taking, filling us all with a sense of awe. All around the Square were Mormon volunteers in groups of two, [...]
“What Christians name as conversion is not a decision that we make regarding a set of beliefs or a staus that we have as validated by a subjective experience. Conversion is waking up to the discovery that we are now living in a different place than we had supposed. Our primary citizenship has been changed. [...]
“None of us has all the truth. But, if we deny or conceal what we believe to be true because it is inconvenient or in conflict with our ‘faith,’ that evidences the weakness, not the strength, of our faith.” Phillip Wogaman
“The life of Jesus and his death — the inevitable consequence of total dedication to the way of God — and his total aliveness through and beyond death, all point in this direction, and exhibit the justice of God at its deepest level: ‘God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself’ (2 Cor.. 5:19). [...]
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