Pastors Are Highly Susceptible To The Sin

Praying Puts Us At Risk Of Getting Involved In God's Conditions. Be Slow To Pray. Praying Most Often Doesn't Get Us What We Want But What God Wants, Something Quite At Variance With What We Conceive To Be In Our Best Interests.

Prayer Gets Us In On What God Is Doing.

The Vocation Of Pastor Has Been Replaced By The Strategies Of Religious Entrepreneurs With Business Plans.

The Hard Work Of Sowing Seed In What Looks Like Perfectly Empty Earth Has A Time Of Harvest. All Suffering, Pain, Emptiness, Disappointment Is Seed: Sow It In God And He Will, Finally, Bring A Crop Of Joy From It.

There Is Something About Christmas That Requires A Rug Rat. Little Kids Make Christmas Fun. I Wonder If Could Rent One For The Holidays. When I Was Tiny We Would By A Real Tree And Stay Up Late Drinking Hot Chocolate And Finding Just The Right Place For The Special Decorations.