• Praying In a Crisis

  How do we lift our darkest, most depressed, most lonely moments up to God? How can we pray when we are most deeply alone, helpless, and our whole world seems

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• The Major Imperatives within Mature Discipleship

  In his autobiography, Morris West suggests that at a certain age our lives simplify and we need have only three phrases left in our spiritual vocabulary: Thank you! Thank you!

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• Honoring An Abundant and Prodigal God

  There’s a disturbing trend within our churches today. Simply put, we are seeing the embrace of our churches become less-and-less inclusive. More-and-more, our churches are demanding a purity and exclusivity

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• Overcoming Anxiety

  Anxiety, like all tensions, eats at us at various levels. More superficially, we worry about many things. Deep down though we are anxious in a way that colors most everything

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• Anxiety

  A friend of mine likes to jokingly pretend he’s the ultimate egoist and will occasionally crack this quip: “Life is hard because I have to deal with the magnitude me!”

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• What Does It Mean To Focus Our Attention On God?

  Some years ago, I was at a religious conference where one of the speakers, widely known and respected for her work among the poor, made this comment: “I’m not a

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• Prayer as Sanity and Balance

  Our generative years are a marathon, not a sprint, and so it’s difficult to sustain graciousness, generosity, and patience through the tiredness, trials, and temptations that beset us through the

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• Ecumenism – Our Neglected Mandate

  While saying farewell the night before he died, Jesus told those with him that he “had other sheep that are not of this fold” and that those with him at

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• The Intelligence Inside of the Aging Process

  What can God and nature have had in mind when they designed the aging process? Why is it that just when our mental prowess, our human maturity, and our emotional

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• The Ineffability of God

  Nicholas Lash, in a deeply insightful essay on God and unbelief, suggests that the God that atheists reject is often simply an idol of their own imaginations: “We need do

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