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.

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

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Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

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

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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies

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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.

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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

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The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

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