I’ll go ahead and answer the question in the affirmative now so you know where I stand. Now what kind of meditation should we use? As Christians we are not trying to remove ourselves from this world. We are not trying to connect with ourselves or escape reality. What we are trying to do is [...]
I want to wish a late congratulations to the Dean Olson family who returned home last Friday from Vietnam with their new daughter Anna Grace. The Olson’s have been great friends and spiritual companions over the last five years and I know they are glad to be home finally with Anna. It feels [...]
People outside the Church spend so much time telling us that we cause hate because we believe that Jesus is the only way to God. God knows who will and who will not accept Christ. We do not need to put human constraints on an all knowing, all seeing, eternal God. If some one does not want to be with him now why would he want to cause them the grief of spending eternity with him.
if we are to put our focus on Christ and his mission for us here on earth we need to stop focusing on ourselves and what we want church to be. It does not matter if the church is emerging, contemporary, or liturgical if the people in it are focused on what they need and not the mission of Christ then the church is failing.
The church is the Body of Christ and he has given each of us a task to do in the body. We each are called to do something. No matter how small the task if you are a part of the body you have a function.
