Bishop Desmond Tutu: “God has a particularly soft spot for sinners. There is hope for us all.” Jesus: Luke 15:11-26.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed,” writes James Baldwin in As Much Truth as One Can Bear, “but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Hear that in the background? It’s the “yeah, but” machine starting up.…

John Wesley, instrumental in the Methodist movement, has this line attributed to him: “I want my preachers ready to preach, pray, or die.” I was quite young when I first encountered that. My first response was to ask if it’s…

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.” — A. W.…

Sky McCracken is a colleague and online friend. Here’s what he shared Sunday night — Several have asked for the Bonhoeffer quote from this morning’s sermon. It was taken from the letter ‘‘After Ten Years’ in _Letters and Papers from…

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves.” Those are the words of A. W. Tozer. If you don’t know the name, look…

With gratitude to Nelson Cuevas, who sourced and shared this —- I didn’t go to church in jail to find God. I went because it was the only way to interact with guys from other blocks and to pass off…

“God comes to us through our ‘wound.’ “Our very imperfections — what religion calls our ‘sins,’ what therapy calls our ‘sickness,’ what philosophy terms our ‘errors’ — are precisely what bring us closer to the reality that no matter how…

EXCERPT:Neuroscience has also recently shown a simpler and more potent method of addressing revenge addiction and violence. It’s called forgiveness. SOURCE: https://www.wsj.com/science/this-is-your-brain-on-revenge-7b9cb75a?st=tjhLzb&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Ian Morgan Cron says it well: “We need a God-initiated solution to heal the wounds that are driving our addictions and all-too-predictable self-sabatoging behaviors.” Apart from yesterday, the past several days’ series of reflections here are becoming what I’m thinking…