Devotion
Love and God
‘When you love do not say “God is in my heart” but rather “I am in the heart of God”.’ Know who said that? Are you OK with that sentiment? What does it mean? Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/
Christian Character
Where does one start doing a prayerful self-test of Christian character? Mine: ‘ Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others’ (Philippians 2: 3,4). (Ouch!!!!). Yours??? Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice […]
Marching on our knees
I remember a sermon given by John Smith in the early 1990s in which he talked about the essence of the Christian faith. In decrying the attitude of the strutting, egoistic rock star, he made a comment that has stuck with me. He said that Christianity doesn’t strut – it marches on its knees. The […]
Max Thurian: Modern Man and Spiritual Life
Brother Max Thurian was the ecumenical Taize community’s sub-prior and resident theologian until his death in 1996. Invited with co-founder of Taize Brother Roger to be an observer at the Vatican II Council, he was later – in somewhat secretive and controversial circumstances – ordained as a Catholic priest. [1] The unique attribute of this […]
Connecting
I was moved the other night to go back and have a look at Larry Crabb’s excellent book Connecting. This is the book that had the potential to cost Crabb his career as a counselor. In it, he talks about the power of emotional healing that takes place when people relate to each other as […]
Faith in the everyday
I was talking to a friend the other night about faith. We touched on different aspects related to faith, including doubt, atheism, and agnosticism. On my way home I got to thinking about it a bit more and I realised again that every one of us lives by faith every day of our lives. Faith […]
We need to hear a better story
In my sermon, ‘Free to Love!’, [http://jmm.org.au/articles/22513.htm] I talked about the issue of repentance and how that word has such negative connotations. If you’re like me, you probably immediately think of someone yelling from a pulpit with his finger pointed straight at you shouting “Repent!” Unfortunately the attitude that that image represents is quite accurate […]
Prayer of Consecration
“I am no longer my own, but Your’s. Put me to what You will; rank me with whom You will. Put me to doing; put me to suffering. Let me be employed for You or laid aside for You. Let me be full; let me be empty. Let me have all things; let me have […]
Devotions from my Facebook page
Each day I try to write a little devotional piece for my Facebook friends. Here are two: (Jesus): ‘I came that they might have life, and have it abundantly’ (John 10:1-10). (Irenaeus): ‘The glory of God is seen in a person who is fully alive’. A prayer: ‘From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, […]
What an I doing with my life?
A movie to ‘give us pause’ – The Dash Movie http://www.thedashmovie.com/land.html
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