Uncertainty
“…when you have fear and uncertainty and you want to calculate, define, and control everything, then you’re not living in reality. You become a neurotic and cowardly person. Remember the Parable of the Talents. The man who hid his talent, who hid his charisma, hid from life—he was afraid to live. What do we do? We fear living. We’re afraid to be. We’re afraid of everything. And so, we don’t live, we don’t exist. This fear of not losing anything will not give you a peaceful li
Life and Death
“Why was the entire dispensation of history and work of Christ necessary? Could not God simply have saved humankind by fiat?...The solution God has provided is to heal our nature from the inside out. By joining His divine, eternal life to human flesh, Jesus Christ has overcome the power of death; hence mortality will be abandoned in the grave when the universal resurrection dawns. If this explanation is not sufficient for the inquirer, ‘Say something like this to reasonable p
Contentment
“From a lack of contentment comes death…What we see in the Garden is paradise. A place of intimate and immediate communion with God,...
Weariness (Fatigue)
“People today are weary, confused and darkened by sin and egoism….People need to realize that their life is troubled because they have...
"Organized Religion"
“Social scientists have been telling us that people are more and more interested in being spiritual, and less and less interested in...
Free Will
“At times we may become so consumed and focused on our own problems and worries that we forget that God is there. We also may feel that...
Faith as Relationship
“In theory, our modern culture believes that relationships with other people are merely psychological phenomena – they are all in our...
Pleasing God
“The fundamental problem is the notion of “works.” It’s the belief that pleasing God is a matter of human effort. The harder one toils,...
Vulnerability
“Vulnerability is something we instinctively reject because we are taught from kindergarten on that we must protect ourselves, control...
Effort
“God . . . set no limits for any of us on the spiritual plane . . . We are called to eternal life in the Kingdom of our Father which is...