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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Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

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My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

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

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Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

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

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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.

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No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

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The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

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