Is The Way, The Truth, and The Life a Noun, Verb, or Both? 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” John 14:6 (CEB). Let me ask whether you consider yourself a Christian, a spiritualist, irreligious, an atheist, or an agnostic, possibly the… Read More »
Learning To Love What God Loves
“The love of God does not consist in tears or in this delight ad tenderness, which for the greater part we desire and find consolation in, but it consists in serving with justice and fortitude of soil and in humility. Without such service, it seems to me we would be receiving everything and giving nothing.”… Read More »
Social Spirituality
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” ~ Susan B. Anthony The famous theologian John Wesley argued there is no religion but social religion and no holiness but social holiness. Spirituality is a practice, not an intellectual exercise… Read More »
The System of Caste
“There is only one caste… the caste of humanity. There is only one religion… the religion of love. There is only one language… the language of the heart.” ~ Sathya Sai Baba Have you ever heard of the word caste? Not the word used to reference someone wearing a cast due to an injury, but… Read More »
Greed: The Bottomless Pit
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” ~ Erich Fromm Is there such a thing as enough is enough? When do we ever have enough wealth, power, and food? In 2020 we watched greed enormously rear its ugly head. The pandemic… Read More »
Our Best Interest is God’s Interest
“Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us and take… Read More »
All Jammed Up
“Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody, and chances are you’re probably going to invest in somebody who’s going to deceive you. I’ve been conned a couple of times, but now I’m a little savvier.” ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal Have you ever heard of the term jamming? In rural America, this would mean… Read More »
Justice, Righteousness, and Shalom
“There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying “peace, peace, where there… Read More »
Accountability and Support
“Support without accountability promotes moral weakness; accountability without support is a form of cruelty.”~ The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church 2013-2016, Part I, Pages 68-69. What is the responsibility of the church with regards to social reform in the kingdom of God? If the church is truly going to be the church, then… Read More »
Proclaiming the Kingdom of God
“Give me one hundred men and women who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart, and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.” ~ John Wesley When you hear the phrase “The Kingdom of God,” what do… Read More »
