JOY IS THE KEYNOTE OF…THE (SPIRITUAL) DISCIPLINES.- RICHARD FOSTER, CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE, P.2
Let’s just pretend that the word in parentheses doesn’t count. It isn’t in the text but I thought it helpful in clarifying what I was writing about.
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Dwell Deep
“It is good for thee to dwell deep that thou mayest feel and understand the spirits of people” John Woolman
If this is true, that means my level of compassion is tied to my level of dwelling and faithfulness in my relationship with God.
What do you think?
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Superficial
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a PRIMARY SPIRITUAL PROBLEM!- Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, p1
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Pastor Wrinkles: Another Journey Begins
Hello Dear readers. Pastor Wrinkles (that would be me) is off on another journey into the interior. Over the next few weeks I am praying into the strategies God has for ministry in 2015. I can already see the outline of some mighty battles ahead which speak to me of pain and perhaps loss but beyond that I also see victory.
Here are a few of the Scriptures I am going to be meditating much on over the next days:
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Heb. 12, 1-3
5In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very naturea God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very natureb of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. Phil. 2:5-11
I am praying about strategies and about weaknesses in my own life that need to be shored up. In addition to these Scripture passages I will be reading Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline.
I will share quotes from this book and insights with you as they come.
Read on…
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Uncle Tom and the Gift Of Tongues
The Daily Post has asked us to…Describe a memory or encounter in which you considered your faith, religion, spirituality — or lack of — for the first time.
You can see how others met this challenge at
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/in-good-faith/
As a boy of thirteen I had an intense spiritual hunger. I suppose I had always leaned toward the spirit world. Growing up the first books I remember borrowing from the town library were stories of the Greek gods and the writings of Uri Geller and other famous psychics.
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t believe in the supernatural or in a higher power but my search for that higher power began in earnest at the end of my eighth grade year. I remember telling my mother that I thought some day I would become a minister. She scoffed at the idea because at that point no one in our immediate family even really believed in the biblical God. My grandparents were believers but they didn’t wear their religion on their sleeves or anything like that and their pastor at the time was more in tune with Universalism than Christianity.
I met a girl in school whose family members were committed Jehovah’s Witnesses and she began witnessing. Through a series of events my parents found out and insisted that if I was really interested in church then I was going to go with my Uncle Tom. They thought he was crazy but at least they knew he was harmless and crazy.
So began my journey into the Christian faith and away from the neo-paganism I had known. The story is long and convoluted but suffice it to say the first time I heard someone deliver a message in tongues and another person give the interpretation, I was hooked. Uncle Tom and the gift of tongues showed me the way to a real personal and supernatural relationship with God through Jesus Christ. God can and will use anything to bring a seeking soul to Himself.
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Debased
I go through life as a transient on his way to eternity, made in the image of God but with that image debased, needing to be taught how to meditate, to worship, to think.- Donald Coggan
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Like the Magi
“I feel like the magi, wandering, following some distant star in hopes that it will bring me to a place, however poor, that will connect history with legacy.” JE Lillie
Do you ever feel like this?
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This Place Called Prayer
Prayer is the place where the mystical power of God meets the practical action of man. JE Lillie
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A Word A Week: Cross
Sue has challenged us with the word :CROSS this week.
Discover how others have met the challenge at
http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-cross/
This seems like a challenge right up my alley. I am wholly indebted to the cross of Christ. My life is lived in light of the cross of Calvary! I am nothing without His cross or his resurrection!
Beams cross at the Guiness factory in Dublin
Crossing Windmill blades at Zaanse Schans
“…the cross is part of salvation. Jesus didn’t purchase Christianity without a cross and Christians cannot live Christianity without a cross.” JE Lillie
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Where All the Trouble Comes From
