Canal or Reservoir

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates,... Weiterlesen

The Celtic Way of Evangelism – Book Review

The Celtic Way of Evangelism Hunter, George G. 2000. The Celtic way of evangelism : how Christianity can reach the West -- again. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. I have already quoted once from this book (here). As many people celebrated... Weiterlesen

Gift or Fruit Centered?

When our eyes are fixed on Christ (and not on the gifts), our fruits will be genuine. We are never to be gift-centered or even fruit-centered, but Presence-centered. In this way we abide in Him; in this way Incarnational Reality... Weiterlesen

Healing through Community

You can't defeat persistent sins by yourself. If you could have, you would have. God wired us to need each other. We heal in community. ~Rick Warren on Twitter

Wandering Minds

How often do we find our minds wandering during prayer? The reason, St. Francis de Sales suggests, is that our minds, which think by concretely re-presenting reality, cannot focus well on abstraction. They will always gravitate to more concrete things.... Weiterlesen

Types of Spirituality

Authentic prayer – which is deeply sensible of God, who speaks out of the depths, and in an awareness of the chaos that surrounds us – requires that we move out of the structure into the antistructure. Here the receptive... Weiterlesen

Loving Others

Genuine love is so contrary to human nature that its presence bears witness to an extraordinary power. ~ John Piper When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than... Weiterlesen

Sharing God’s Love

Francis of Assisi said: Don't you know that everybody who encounters you during the day should see something of God's love in you? Is this really possible? Yes, but not through our own effort but by opening the "curtains" our... Weiterlesen

Looking into Reality

Spirituality is not about looking away from life but more deeply into it, not about denying the human but about releasing our true selves, and that the life of our truest self partakes of the very substance of God’s life,... Weiterlesen

West African Insects

... because there is no need to think a whole week about it ;-). I should say, looking back calmly on the matter, that seventy-five percent of the West African insects sting, five percent bite, and the rest are either... Weiterlesen

Longing Motivates

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea! - Antoine de Saint Exupery  

African Proverbs

« Sumu ɲuɔnliɛn kɔlɔn ye n banu kaa a na kai. » (Bozo-Djenaama) The stranger has big eyes but he does not see anything. *** « Jirikurun men o men ji la, a te ke bama ye. » (Bambara) No... Weiterlesen

Christmas Reality

Shona Neff, founder of 'Christian Women Take Root' and 'Take Root and Write' - two Networks for Christian Women and Writers, reflects on the meaning of 'Merry Christmas,' suggests a triple reality check in Reality Check: Merry Christmas, and comes... Weiterlesen

St. Francis of Assisi

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace... Weiterlesen