God Is The Larger Context And Plot

One Way To Define Spiritual Life Is Getting So Tired And Fed Up With Yourself You Go On To Something Better, Which Is Following Jesus.

We Cannot Be Too Careful About The Words We Use; We Start Out Using Them And They End Up Using Us.

Like The Sacramental Use Of Water And Bread And Wine, Friendship Takes What's Common In Human Experience And Turns It Into Something Holy.

Church Is The Textured Context In Which We Grow Up In Christ To Maturity. But Church Is Difficult. Sooner Or Later, Though, If We Are Serious About Growing Up In Christ, We Have To Deal With Church. I Say Sooner.

It Is Not Easy To Convey A Sense Of Wonder, Let Alone Resurrection Wonder, To Another. It’s The Very Nature Of Wonder To Catch Us Off Guard, To Circumvent Expectations And Assumptions. Wonder Can’t Be Packaged, And It Can’t Be Worked Up. It Requires Some Sense Of Being There And Some Sense Of Engagement.