A fixed focus on the persistent presence of God is central to the piety Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus introduces his message on spirituality in Matt. 6 by urging us to consider our audience. Too many of us, Jesus warns, think only of “other people in order to be seen [...]
Audience of One: How to Remember the Only Companion Who Counts
by Chris on 06. Dec, 2011 in Blog, Training & Spiritual Disciplines
Unforgetting God
by Chris on 05. Dec, 2011 in Blog, Training & Spiritual Disciplines
I once heard Dallas Willard interviewed at a California congregation. He was speaking about the way that intolerable times of pain become unexpected times of praise by experiencing the presence of God within them. Willard said “Experiencing the presence of God in one’s life is something you’ve got to have before you need it, like [...]
Training v Trying
by Chris on 19. Nov, 2011 in Blog, Training & Spiritual Disciplines
There is one final fundamental key to laying down the air-hockey and following Jesus out the door to his larger-than-life-sized plan: focus on training harder rather than trying harder. Dallas Willard writes, “As disciples, we are not trying to be different people (which is the road to failure, legalism, and bondage), but we are training [...]
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