I had a dream. In it, people discovered the fullness of Jesus Christ. People gathered together daily, ate their meals together, and shared the Lord’s Supper in an atmosphere of joy and celebration. People gave, and without man-made limitations. They gave everything they owned, everything they were, and every spiritual gift they had received from [...]
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Tagged Church Issues, Community, Dream, Fellowship, Hope, Love, Trinity
When I was a younger Christian, I heard a great deal about the “God-shaped hole” that existed in each of us. Only God could fill that hole. Left unfilled, the hole drove people to despair as they tried to fill it with one inappropriate plug after another. Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, riches, power, fame…nothing [...]
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Also posted in Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Counterculture, Dying to Self, Godly Character, Holiness, Humility, Maturity, Obedience, Oddities, Relevance, Simplicity
Tagged Boredom, Despair, Ennui, God-Shaped Hole, Self-Medication, Substitutes, Thirst for God
A couple miscellaneous thoughts for the day… J. Lee Grady of Charisma magazine lays down the smack in his article “It’s (Past) Time for a Charismatic Reformation.” Below is a sampling of his “15 Theses” (note: no truth to the rumor that these were stapled to the door of the Prayer Tower at Oral Roberts [...]
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Also posted in Blogging, Charismatic, Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Dying to Self, Godly Character, Heresy, Miscellany, Oddities, Simplicity
Tagged Cerulean Sanctum, Charisma, Charisma Magazine, Charismata, Charismatic, Correction, Email, J. Lee Grady, letters, Readers, Rebuke
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