There are few places is the divide between the “liberal” and “conservative” Christian faith more evident than how each side understands the person of Jesus and what it means to be his disciples.
Tag: Jesus
Let the Main Thing be the Main Thing / Spiritual Meditations
Our desire for certainty, our need to be right, and our tendency to miss the point have conspired to keep Christians from experiencing unity.
Is Religion a Crutch? / Spiritual Meditations
God’s “the inner voice of love,” is precious indwelling reminder that frees us to act as God’s beloved, beyond the reach of human praise or blame.
Only Children Enter the Kingdom / Spiritual Meditations
When Jesus said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven,” what did he mean?
Approaching the Throne in Imaginative Prayer / Spiritual Meditations
Use your mind to seek God in creative ways. Visualize yourself in a Bible story as you explore it as if you were there. Or place yourself into a different landscape or situation and allow the Holy Spirit to take you where it wills, as in this post.
God Wouldn’t Want Someone Like Me / Spiritual Meditations
In all my years of ministry, it might be one of the hardest conversations that I’ve ever had with someone. Walking up the stairs of this house for the first and only time, the smell and the screaming were something terrible. I felt as if I had been transported into the middle of the film “The Exorcist”.
When the Holy Spirit Nudges You / Spiritual Meditations
All of us keep a part of ourselves, the inner self, hidden, and show the world only our outer self. In the Spirit, God overcomes that barrier. God now lives inside, in the inner self, and seeks ways to bring harmony to those two selves.
Jesus Reversed the World’s Values / Spiritual Meditations
Women, the poor, minorities, the disabled, environmental and human rights advocates—all these draw their moral force from the power of the gospel unleashed at the cross, when God took the side of the victim.
Jesus, Our Link to God / Spiritual Meditations
Jesus reestablished the original link between the seen and unseen worlds and revealed a newly intimate side to God and his point of view.
Your Unique Ability to Talk to God / Spiritual Meditations
God doesn’t need our bodies to access our minds. As Tennyson wrote in a poem, “closer is He then breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”
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