"Our spiritual journey must lead through the desert or else our healing will be the product of our own will and wisdom. It is in the silence of the desert that we hear our dependence on noise. It is in the poverty of the desert that we see clearly our attachments to the trinkets and baubles we cling to for security and pleasure. The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert, we trust God or die." - Dan Allender, The Healing Path
Passover - Rev. Chris Currie | 10.15.23
In Western culture, we like to see ourselves as rugged individuals forging our own way through life. We desperately grasp for complete freedom and self-determination, not realizing that we do so at the expense of our own humanity. Jesus came to show us the way to be truly human, but this wasn't a life free from submission. That is impossible for us. We all submit to and are enslaved by something. Jesus, however, paradoxically promised true freedom through submission. He promises us liberation by constraining us in love. - Joshua D. Chatraw, Telling a Better Story
Judgement & Deliverance - Dr. Cyndi Parker | 10.8.23
Listening to God's voice in scripture doesn't put us in the position of having infallible opinions. It puts us where it put Jesus himself: in possession of a vocation, whether for a lifetime or for the next minute. Vocations are fragile, and are tested in performance. That's what it's like to live at the intersection of heaven and earth. - N.T. Wright, Simply Christian