I love this quote from Frederica Mathewes-Green in the collaborative book The Church in Emerging Culture. The seductive illusion is that we can come up with some big “socko” message, put it on a billboard, and snag whole nets full of fish at one time. This isn’t how true conversion happens. It’s one to one, [...]
While reading about the history of the Reformation I came across a comparison between how Catholic and Protestant clergy ministered to those who were dying. I began to think about the missing elderly in evangelical christian congregations and how this gap effects the church. Here are my thoughts. In our enthusiasm to embrace the youth [...]
The ordinary purification and healing, whether of the body or of the mind, takes place only little by little, by passing from one degree to another with labour and patience… The soul that rises from sin to devotion may be compared to the dawning of a day, which at its approach does not expel the [...]
