I Cannot Fail To Call The Congregation

We Cannot Be Too Careful About The Words We Use; We Start Out Using Them And They End Up Using Us.

We've All Met A Certain Type Of Spiritual Person. She's A Wonderful Person. She Loves The Lord. She Prays And Reads The Bible All The Time. But All She Thinks About Is Herself. She's Not A Selfish Person. But She's Always At The Center Of Everything She's Doing.

Like A Child Exploring The Attic Of An Old House On A Rainy Day, Discovering A Trunk Full Of Treasure And Then Calling All His Brothers And Sisters To Share The Find, Richard J. 'foster Has 'found' The Spiritual Disciplines That The Modern World Has Stored Away And Forgot, And Has Excitedly Called Us To Celebrate Them. For They Are, As He Shows Us, The Instruments Of Joy, The Way Into Mature Christian Spirituality And Abundant Life.

I Don't Want To End Up A Bureaucrat In The Time-management Business For God Or A Librarian Cataloguing Timeless Truths. Salvation Is Kicking In The Womb Of Creation Right Now, Any Time Now. Pay Attention.

It Is Not Easy To Convey A Sense Of Wonder, Let Alone Resurrection Wonder, To Another. It’s The Very Nature Of Wonder To Catch Us Off Guard, To Circumvent Expectations And Assumptions. Wonder Can’t Be Packaged, And It Can’t Be Worked Up. It Requires Some Sense Of Being There And Some Sense Of Engagement.