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June Wrap Up

I am going to wrap up June by revisiting some of Bob’s words from his post that started us off this month. “So get out there and tell your dream. Write your story. Write your songs, or sing them. Be the co-creator you were meant to be. Paint those pictures, draw those scenes, carve thoseContinue reading “June Wrap Up”

The First Step

“The first step to that kingdom of God within is to find peace within even among chaos.” ― N.K.David

When God Wants to Sort Out the World

“When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the pure-hearted and so on.”― N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was & Is

Holy Troublemakers

Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom ofContinue reading “Holy Troublemakers”

Already Here

“Jesus said, ‘The Kingdom of God is within’ and ‘I only say what I hear the Father saying and I only do what I see the Father doing’. Therefore, It is something we experience, articulate, and do. The Kingdom of God is already here but not yet fully realized.”― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination:Continue reading “Already Here”

Where we Belong

“If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, we would know that the Kingdom of God in the sense of holiness, goodness, beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to born both within ourselves and within the world; we would know that the Kingdom ofContinue reading “Where we Belong”