Sacrifice
“The rejection of egotism, that is, the ability to sacrifice your own interests for the sake of another, is an important and highly...
Spiritual Foundation
“Neurosis is a personality crisis. This is the clash of the desired and actual. And this is often a spiritual problem. An unrestrained...
Sickness (Illness)
“Life itself is a form of ascesis. People just don’t recognize it, and lose heart.”…The fact [life], is ascetic in nature means it...
Seeing
“People always seem to be thinking too literally, and Jesus is always moving them from the literal to the spiritual level—to seeing...
Temptation
“One who determines to serve the Lord will be tested and face temptation (see 1Co 10:13). Thus, we prepare our soul for this challenge to...
Thoughts (during Prayer)
“Prayer is strange stuff. As a purely mental event it can be indistinguishable from the running dialog that goes on in our heads all the...
Sorrow
“Even among those of us who call ourselves Christians, the concept of godly sorrow (2 Cor 7:10) is not well understood. How easy it is to...
Symbols
“The Lord knows that we can only make sense of the world through rational engagement with it, and so we are given patterns and symbols to...
Worship
“The heart of worship is the offering of praise and thanksgiving to the God who has given us life and sustains all things in their...
Structure
“The concept of structure has been given a bad name not only by pietism, which puts all the emphasis on what is within man or his ethical...