Archive for the 'Discipleship' Category
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The Road Not Taken
I don’t think there has ever been a time in my life when I identified more with a piece of literature than I do with this poem right now. Every line has special meaning…
Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 20th, 2008 tagged Poetry, Quotes, Discipleship | 2 Comments »
Called to an Original Life
It was Adrian van Kaam in his little book, Envy and Originality who “argues that we are each called to an original life, that the enemy of the original life is envy. The English word “original” comes from the Latin word orire, meaning “to arise.” Life is an inside-out process, a graced emergence. Envy […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 11th, 2008 tagged Spiritual Formation, Discipleship | Comment now »
Being Ourselves…
“The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. The more I resist Him and try to live on my own the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires. In fact, […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 3rd, 2008 tagged Spiritual Formation, Quotes, Discipleship | 4 Comments »
Everybody Follows Somebody
I’ve been thinking about some things this week that are not too popular. And I’m going to talk to you about some things that will probably make some of you upset. I’ve been a little upset myself as I have realized some of my own “pet” ideas are just that – ideas. You see, […]
Published by AP on March 23rd, 2006 tagged Preaching, Lent, Discipleship | Comment now »
Hearing God
All of us really should read Loy’s Thoughts on Divine Guidance. Here are a couple of excerpts:
“The divine story is still going on. Yet we have inundated ourselves with so many things that even were an angel to come, we could not see it right away. Our eyes have been covered over in layers of […]
Published by AP on December 19th, 2005 tagged Spiritual Formation, Quotes, Discipleship | Comment now »
Restlessness of Soul — Directing Our Final Intention Toward God
MY CHILD, do not trust in your present feeling, for it will soon give way to another. As long as you live you will be subject to changeableness in spite of yourself. You will become merry at one time and sad at another, now peaceful but again disturbed, at one moment devout and the next […]
Published by AP on September 29th, 2005 tagged Spiritual Formation, Discipleship | Comment now »
Teshuva (Repentance) and the Kingdom of Heaven
“The Kingdom of Heaven is here.” Imagine the consternation and the flush of excitement as they heard him make such a bold statement. Now he had their attention. But in their excitement they missed the first part of what he said. Or maybe the noise of the crowd hadn’t quite settled down in time for […]
Published by AP on September 23rd, 2005 tagged Discipleship | Comment now »
A Community of Redemption
The newest issue of CT has some fascinating articles regarding accountability as it relates to church discipline. Church discipline? I never even heard of it, nor saw it practiced, in any church I had ever been in or knew of until late in my 20’s. Maybe that’s why I find this discussion so fascinating. How […]
Published by AP on August 2nd, 2005 tagged Discipleship | Comment now »
Growth Is Dangerous
I’d been looking for that path to the creek for 4 months. Brambles and “jaggerbushes”, tangles of brush and grass, dead, bare limbs and bushes all obscuring the way that had to be there. Some weeks before, walking in from the north by following the twists and turns of the “crick”, I’d found the old […]