Missing the Most Important Thing

This reading from John Eldridge’s Waking the Dead is such an important truth.  I want the rest of my life to be lived in close intimacy with God. I don’t want to only know about Him, I want to know Him and walk with Him… We take folks through a discipleship program...

Intimacy With God (Where Are You?)

Knowledge is good, obedience is better, but intimacy with God is the goal.  This truth from John Eldridge’s Walking With God changed my life… Whatever else we might believe about intimacy with God at this point, the truth is that God knows us very intimately. He knows...

WILD SPIRITUALITY

This idea is so life giving to me. I find myself communing with God more often and in more places…From John Eldridge – Restoration Year… God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. GENESIS 1:31 Much of your story is ultimately spiritual. The tests and...

Original glory bestowed

If I am honest, I have a harder time accepting my “glory” than my sinfulness.  This reading from John Eldridge’s Restoration Year, encourages me to believe and accept that I have a glory… In that day the LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown and a glorious...

No soul was meant to live like this

I am learning the art of being still and knowing that He is God. This is a challenge in our culture! John Eldridge captures it well in this reading from Get Your Life Back… I think it was Archibald Hart who pointed out that because we are so accustomed to moving pedal...

Living in Narrative (The Larger Story)

The world offers us a role in a “smaller story”, while God has something much better for us in His “larger story”… From, The Sacred Romance (John Eldridge) Life is not a list of propositions, it is a series of dramatic scenes. As Eugene Peterson said, “We live in...