Nearly all areas of life in which we could become spiritually competent (hearing God and receiving divine guidance among them) confront us with the same type of challenge. They all require of us a choice to be a spiritual person, to live a spiritual life. We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself. - Dallas Willard, Hearing God
The Cost of Discipleship - 9.28.25 | Paul Burkhart
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. - G. K. Chesterton
The King's Banquet - 9.21.25 | Dr. Cyndi Parker
The future is given to those who are experienced in groaning. The future is denied to those who have been cynical and calloused and self-deceiving enough to rejoice in the present ordering and are unable to grieve about the ruin toward which the royal community is headed.... The staggering works of Jesus - feeding, healing, casting out, forgiving - happened not to those who held to the old order but to those who yearned because the old order had failed them or squeezed them out. - Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination