A Deep Longing – June 8, 2021
“American culture has almost entirely fragmented the extended family. As a result, we experience a deep longing for the things the extended family used to provide… The church as a family can be a way of incarnating an answer to these longings.” -Hal Miller, from “Brothers, Sisters” in Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants […]
Specific Love – June 7, 2021
“God’s love is very specific… God’s universal love and [God’s] great mercy for the world are ultimately known and revealed in the particularity of human beings loving each other as [siblings].” -Charles E. Moore, from “Next Door” in Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People, p. 292-293
Salvation Through Love – June 4, 2021
“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which [humanity] can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human […]
What Life Expects from Us – June 3, 2021
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right […]