THOUGHTS:
THEOLOGICAL, SPIRITUAL, AND
OTHERWISE

I am finding it easier to admit I don't have 
answers. That's major progress! It opens me to 
infinite possibilities, to The Infinite, God.
All that I know is the love of God through His 
incarnate Son, Jesus Christ, born, lived, died,  
& resurrected.  Beyond that, I am only learning, 
seeking understanding, & ultimately obtaining 
wisdom.
---JOURNAL 

The imperative to love all persons -- friends, 
family, neighbors, and enemies is repeatedly 
commanded by Our Lord, Jesus, in the Gospel.  
There are no reservations or qualifications 
to this commandment.  We are simply to love 
as our Heavenly Father loves without condition.
---JOURNAL

God is not concerned with who we were yesterday; 
but rather, He is concerned with who we are 
today.  This is the essence of God's  mercy and 
grace.
---JOURNAL

Our prayer lives often feel ineffective and a 
waste of time and energy. Our disappointment 
-- even doubt -- grows day after day.  We redouble
our efforts and still find prayer little more 
than an arrid and lifeless exercise.  The 
problem: we're probably not listening.
---JOURNAL

To serve God is to be an instrument of 
God.  It is permitting our "Godness" to have 
effect in the world.  As I become less and He 
becomes more, I become a finer instrument for 
His use.
---JOURNAL

Each peaceable act is like a small stone which 
added with many other small stones makes a great 
wall of peace which shelters us from the storms 
of life.
---JOURNAL

The Christian life is by definition a life of 
risk-taking because Faith is  the knowledge of 
the unseen.
---JOURNAL

Jesus, show me where I should go.  Light my 
pathway with wisdom.  Teach me how to love more.  
Let me follow You always with courage and 
faithfulness.
---JOURNAL

Good Friday without Easter is masochism; Easter 
without Good Friday is drunken hedonism; Good 
Friday consumated in Easter is our Redemption, 
our Salvation.
---JOURNAL

The Christian life is, at its most fundemental
level, authentic.  It is an authenticity which
arises out of being created in the image and
likeness of God and is, then, realized in the
Incarnation, God became Man.  Sin is, then,
understood as a rejection of authenticity in
our lives to even the smallest portion.  Sin
finds its antithesis on the Cross, the perfect
expression of authenticity.
---JOURNAL

The larger church -- the Body of Christ -- is
always harmed by decension and division.
Smaller communities of faith -- denominations,
indivudual congregations, etc. -- are equally
harmed by decension and division.  However,
this must not be read to mean that the dia-
lectical process of doctrinal development is
harmful.  It is not.
---JOURNAL

Justice, as we understand it from the New
Testament, is by its very nature sound theo-
logy.  Hence, claims to justice must be defen-
sible theologically and biblically.
---JOURNAL

A claim to justice finds its validity in
scripture and theology.  If it fails to find
support therein, it is invalid on its face.
---JOURNAL

Far too often "good" causes fail and most 
often for the reason that they have not 
been adequately reasoned before, during, 
and after direct action. As Hallett has 
observed, "A cause thus withdrawn from 
scrutiny, no matter how holy in appearance,
is always suspect.  For God is not a lover 
of darkness -- not even when from the 
darkness the cry goes up more fervently, 
"God wills it!'" Indeed, one's opponent 
inevitably also claims, "God wills it!"
---JOURNAL

Too often we use Jesus Christ like a bag in
which we carry our social causes.  Rather,
our social causes properly arise from our
faith in Jesus Christ born, crucified, and
risen.
---JOURNAL

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