In August of this year I heard Father Gregory Boyle speak in Charlotte about his work with gang members in East Los Angeles. For 35 years he has invited young men and women out of gangs into Homeboy and Homegirl Industries. He has written two books about his work, Tattoos on the Heart […]

1st Principle: Quieting Your Mind So That You Can Hear              the Voice of the Indwelling Spirit of God “Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46 10 “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.” Psalm 37:7 “Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the […]

A move, a new job, a marriage, a major illness, the death of a loved one–any transition can throw us off-kilter with a need to reorient ourselves and adapt to some changes in our lives. If we look at each change/each transition as a passage through a birth canal or a bridge into a new […]

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is unseen is eternal” 2 Cor 4:18       We are caught between two realms, the world/ the culture we live in, and God’s kingdom. Until the day we die, as long as we live in this […]

These are the profound experiences in my life that have changed me:   I was brought up in a hell-fire-and-damnation church from age 16 mos. to 13 years. This one experience more than any other set the trajectory of my life. As an adult I had to change my attachment to a punitive, capricious God […]

The church of Jesus Christ is not a building, it is not a denomination; it is the body, all the believers who dedicate their lives to God, who live in the kingdom of God here on earth, who want to be part of the mind of Christ.[1] The apostle Paul describes how every part of […]

“All of me, why not take all of me” has come into my life as a theme song, a prayer that I lift up to God: “I’m no good without you!” Day after day over the last week or so, these words have reverberated in my heart and mind. A year and a half ago […]

We can have all the knowledge in the world, we can know the Bible backwards and forward and not know anything in our hearts and souls, only in our minds. How are we to live what we know about Jesus’ teachings and the whole wisdom of the Bible? That takes a living, loving embrace of […]