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The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
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We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
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.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.
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.
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
