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Trading Questions for Trust
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I have a friend who has been struggling with her faith for years because her “go-to” method of relating to God is to ask God, “Why?” She is in good company. When the story of Moses begins, … Continue reading
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Tagged Moses, the unshakable kingdom
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Sharing our Stories
WRITING AS AN ACT OF FAITH After a marathon four-hour reading session recently, I finished Jan Karon’s latest book in the Father Tim/Mitford series, Somewhere Safe with Someone Good, and, as usual, was sad to say goodbye to Mitford, a … Continue reading
The Capacity to Dream
What makes us grumpy? What makes us frown deep inside even as we walk in golden sunlight under blue skies? What makes us respond immediately with “That won’t work!” to an idea someone proposes or a fix to a … Continue reading
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Tagged Apprentice of Jesus program, Hope, Renovare
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Putting Away Childhood
MY JOURNEY Today I took my granddaughter out to lunch to celebrate her 15th birthday. As we ate, she tentatively mentioned her dream of owning a car by her 16th birthday. As we talked it through, I mentioned that she would … Continue reading
Countering the World’s Darkness
Note to “followers”: This may have gone out to you earlier last week as a DRAFT. I’m re-posting it so that it will be part of the actual blog Living as Apprentices in an amoral world that daily spawns pain, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Moore, Clarence Jorden, Henri Nouwen, John Lewis, Karl Rahner, Martin Luther King
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“Soaked in the Presence of the Living Christ”
In Eternal Living, a new book reflecting on the life and teachings of Dallas Willard (who died in 2013), Richard Foster, his very good friend of forty years, writes, “[Dallas] possessed in his person a spiritual formation into Christlikeness that … Continue reading
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Tagged Dallas Willard, Nathan Foster, Richard Foster, spiritual disciplines
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