Sunday night the Elders took the opportunity to share with you what we believe is God’s word for our body. We would like to use this forum as an opportunity to continue the discussion about what it means and how we should respond. Here is what was shared: Jesus invited us to a great feast and there was a huge table [...]
Month: July, 2009
Martin Buber – Life In Common
In the interest of its vital meaning the idea of community must be guarded against all contamination by sentimentality or emotionalism. Community is never a mere attitude of mind, and if it is feeling it is that of inner constitution. …It is community of tribulation and, only because of that community of spirit; community of [...]
Eugene Peterson on the Two Ways
Will you live a solid life of prayer, listening to and answering God, rooted in the soil of God’s revelation, your life growing like God’s Torah, a tree with fruit-laden branches? Or will you live an insubstantial life of chatter and gossip, using words without God-context, oblivious of God, your life reduced to a pile [...]