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That is incarnation and it calls for identification with all suffering and allows for no comfort zone with which to label oneself.

God help us to disturb the city.

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash When people ask me how I get certain things done, the response is often, "I work them into the cracks of my life between major commitments. Ironically, the things we do in those squeeze times are not always the least important, but sometimes the most. Earthquake spasms create cracks in the surface of the earth and…

Good ideas are worth remembering and writing down. So are not-so-good ideas. They can be sorted out later or even trigger good ideas.

  Pieter de Grebber ca. 1600 – 1653 He really loved his power and authority and thought a great deal of himself.Herod was a character. He shared a name with others who were addicted to power, position, and wealth. Though his ego was over-sized, his heart was not cold enough to be frozen. He held…

You can believe in tomorrow without boasting about it. 

“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”

Our Abba in Heaven, God of the Universe, I begin this day in a state of seeking, hungry, thirsty, lowly and lifted. I come as a man washed and yet, desiring to enter the depths of the river and flow with its mighty course, fresh and free. I drink from the fountain of grace and…

Authentic church welcomes outside criticism and neutralizes it with love and truth.