Sep 30, 2008

The Power of Praise
On Praise
Saying For Today: "God is in the restoration business. God uses worship to shape us into the persons and churches that He wills us to be. "

Sep 29, 2008

Coming Out From Behind the Bushes
On Healing of Guilt and Shame
Saying For Today: "Forgiveness opens to healing that can lead us beyond both guilt and shame. "

Sep 28, 2008

A More Whole Child of God
On Working through Discouragement
Saying For Today: "Christians like anyone else are open to experiencing mental pain and mental illness. Even as a leg can be broken under stress, the mind and emotions can be bent or broken, too. "

Sep 27, 2008

Seen and Unseen
On Christian Mysteries
Saying For Today: "To see a little more into the richness and greatness of Grace, we naturally long to see and live even a little more the unsearchable, inexpressible Truth. "

Sep 26, 2008

The Lord's Prayer (no. 1)
On Our Father
Saying For Today: "A diciple's praying is to be God-centered, not I-centered or us-centered; our needs are set forth in the environment of God-being-preeminent in our lives and our faith community as Christ's disciples."

Sep 25, 2008

A Love Like Christ's Love
On Husbands Loving Wives
Saying For Today: "Too many of us men put a wall around our hearts and neglect our first-love toward our wives. Then, we complain when our marriage has lost its passion and vibrancy."

Sep 24, 2008

God Known As Plain As Day
On Truth as a Person
Saying For Today: "Even when I was hanging over the abyss of agnosticism, my faith was in a Person, Truth itself."

Sep 23, 2008

The Faces of Faith
On Practicing Faith
Saying For Today: "We seek a fit between faith and everyday life. We find that this does not always come easy. Not only is faith often a mystery, often life is messy. "

Sep 22, 2008

Ourselves Reaching Out
On Christian Service
Saying For Today: "And when we give anything in the name of Christ, that is ourself reaching out to include the other with us in God. "

Sep 19, 2008

Receiving and Sharing Abundant Life
On Healing
Saying For Today: "Healing is a process. Pain may be a positive sign that changes are occurring at deep levels of our psyche and body. ... We all want healing, but healing can be painful."

Sep 18, 2008

A Prescription in Times of Worry
On Receiving Peace
Saying For Today: "Regardless of the worry of the present time, we need to practice gratitude daily, and maybe more so when we do not feel grateful. Gratitude gives us, at least, some relief; lack of gratitude gives us nothing. "

Sep 17, 2008

The Cracked Water Pot
On God and Human Weakness
Saying For Today: "Often, our weaknesses prove to be God's opportunities. Indeed, God delights to use our weakness to manifest His powerful love."

Sep 16, 2008

Faith, Hearing, and Word of Christ
On the Arising of Faith
Saying For Today: "Often, too, we have to get humiliated to be humble enough to hear what Christ says, rather than all the other voices in our head and heart. "

Sep 15, 2008

Open to Blessing
On Living a Blessed Life
Saying For Today: "God has a limitless supply of everything good, for God is the fullness of everything good we desire."

Sep 13, 2008

God Invited In
On Being A Church
Saying For Today: "God is only experientially among us when we align ourselves as a community with the conversion, thoughts, attitudes, and actions that make us prepared to invite God to companion us."

Sep 4, 2008

The Talking Skull
On Right Use of Speech