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A sensitive heart of repentance is more important to God than all of our religious activity.

>> Continue reading "The Wandering and Returning…"



We must learn to let the mystery of God’s love for us sink into the deepest parts of our being; otherwise we become workers not followers.

>> Continue reading "Fully Known… Fully Loved…"



In the Bible one can read a narrative about the life of a man named David.
David is introduced to the story as a shepherd, but not just any shepherd.  After a fairly short introduction, we read about David being anointed to be the next king of Israel (1 Samuel 16).
Again, time passes, David is still [...]

>> Continue reading "Responding to the ‘Wilderness’"



I think that many Christians try and ‘ride the waves’ towards a realization and relationship with God when He is asking us to swim with the current.

>> Continue reading "The Current versus the Waves…"



She moved away and our questions lingered, but the song just kept on playing…

>> Continue reading "If God Was A Song…"



There was a heaviness enveloping the whole time…

>> Continue reading "The Whole Earth is Full (thoughts from an airport food court)"



Like I mentioned, almost no one argues that reality exists. If we believe that Jesus is at the core of reality, then we have little need to argue about His existence.

>> Continue reading "Jesus: the way things really are"



If we are familiar with the story, then we know that Moses ends up leading the children of Israel out of Egypt and towards the land that God had promised them. We know that Moses was the vessel that God chose to work through.

The profound, and often unseen, element of this founding story is that, according to the Bible, Moses was born before the children of Israel cried out for help.

>> Continue reading "Founding Stories…"



A friend once told me that I spoke with a lot of ‘loose spiritual analogies.’ By this she meant that she often heard me telling stories from which I had derived some sort of spiritual meaning, but that the connection wasn’t all that clear from the story itself. I can’t quite remember my reaction to [...]

>> Continue reading "the Story we are all a part of…"



Welcome to theCanvas blog. We’ll be posting here shortly. Stay tuned.

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