Category: Scripture Reflections
Sacred Stories: Scripture and Lived Experience
Our image of God depends on how we understand the Bible. Is the Bible a moral rulebook or does it present a larger Truth about humanity’s experience with God told through stories?
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If We Were All Good Shepherds
A female perspective.
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Making Idols of Human Institutions
We have put too much stock in human governments and institutions. The archetypal pattern found in scripture shows that human kingdoms always fail and God is always trying to draw us back to our original goodness.
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Life’s Mirrors: 4 Ways to Deeper Self-Knowledge
Our true selves are within us but sometimes we need a mirror to be held up before us so we can see it, and also see those false-self layers that need to be shed.
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Threat or Freedom? – Two Ways of Reading the Gospel
Do you read the Gospel and Jesus’ statements through a lens of threat or a lens of freedom? How you do will make a big difference of how you see God, church, and religion.
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Filling an Empty Well
For many of us these days our energies are focused in fewer places than normal, which means those...
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What Do You Expect of Prayer?
Perseverance and indifference in prayer may seem in conflict, but prayer is an expression of desire followed by a trust in God.
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Jesus’ Paradoxical Life-Giving Tactics
The evil spirit uses the tactics of riches, honour, and pride to control us. Jesus has a different way.
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God’s Freeing Boundaries
My wife Sarah preaches on how God’s boundaries are ways we are freed from our own destructive devices.
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Are You at Home with Yourself?
When you put aside titles and labels and paychecks and comfort, are you at home with yourself?
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Love Doesn’t Make Sense
The way Jesus radically loves doesn’t make sense if you use the criteria of this world.
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Change! The Kingdom is Near!
What does Jesus mean when he talks about God’s “kingdom”? He spends a lot of time offering many metaphors for it.
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5-Day Overview of Ignatian Decision-Making
What is God’s Will?
