The Life Of Faith Isn't Meant For

The Latin Words Humus, Soil/earth, And Homo, Human Being, Have A Common Derivation, From Which We Also Get Our Word 'humble.' This Is The Genesis Origin Of Who We Are: Dust - Dust That The Lord God Used To Make Us A Human Being. If We Cultivate A Lively Sense Of Our Origin And Nurture A Sense Of Continuity With It, Who Knows, We May Also Acquire Humility.

You Don't Make Your Words True By Embellishing Them With Religious Lace. In Making Your Speech Sound More Religious, It Becomes Less True.

Neither The Adventure Of Goodness Nor The Pursuit Of Righteousness Gets Headlines.

If People Don't Know Their Pastor, It's Easy To Put The Pastor On A Pedestal And Depersonalize Him Or Her. It's Also Easy For Pastors, Who Don't Know Their Congregations, Simply To Classify Congregants As Saved Or Unsaved, Involved Or Not Involved, Tithers Or Non-tithers.

We've All Met A Certain Type Of Spiritual Person. She's A Wonderful Person. She Loves The Lord. She Prays And Reads The Bible All The Time. But All She Thinks About Is Herself. She's Not A Selfish Person. But She's Always At The Center Of Everything She's Doing.