MINDING OUR HOUSE FIRST

DREAMING GOD'S DREAMS

"May God grant us the grace to have faith in a future that transforms our imaginations and makes it possible for us to live for impossible possibilities, for dreams that correspond with God's."

 - John Westerhoff III

THE CROSS AND OUR DAYS

"In any given situation, the cross is the heaviest piece of furniture to move, and Christians are charged with the considerable task of picking it up and carrying it every single day."

 -Thomas Long

WHEN SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN

REMEMBER AND WAIT

The past and the future. Memory and expectation. Remember and hope. Remember and wait. Wait for him whose face we all of us know because somewhere in the past we have faintly seen it, whose life we all of us thirst for because somewhere in the past we have seen it lived, have maybe even had moments of living it ourselves. Remember him who himself remembers us as he promised to remember the thief who died beside him. To have faith is to remember and wait, and to wait in hope is to have what we hope for already begin to come true in us through our hoping. Praise him.
- Frederick Buechner

- first published in A Room Called Remember and then later in Secrets in the Dark

PREPARING FOR WORSHIP

"The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender." - AW Tozer

FAITH AND PURPOSE

“If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose. ” ~ Helen Keller

FOLLOWING JESUS

“‎Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.”
― Scot McKnight, One Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow

SILENCE

 

 

 "Thought on the way to work... The reason we keep silent about Jesus is not because we are scared of a no. We are used to no. No ends the conversation. What we are truly scared of is a yes." - Daniel Murray, ministerial student posting on Facebook

SUBMITTING TO GOD

"We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved: we are, as Newman said, rebels who must lay down our arms." CS Lewis

SURRENDER

"If you do not surrender to Christ, you will surrender to chaos." - Andrew Murray