Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

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It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is

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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

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You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.

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Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

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When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

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The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

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Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

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