Sublime

Psalm 8, David marvels at God’s creation and the fact that man is given dominion over it.

Psalm 16 feels more accessible after we’ve walked closely with David.

Worship isn’t just something we do; it is where God does something to us. Worship is the heart of discipleship because it is the gymnasium in which God retrains our hearts.

For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

I want to supplement Willard’s emphasis on the individual practice of the spiritual disciplines with what might be a counterintuitive thesis in our “millennial” moment: that the most potent, charged, transformative site of the Spirit’s work is found in the most unlikely of places—the church!

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

In God’s economy, everyone benefits by everyone contributing.

It takes real trust in God to enter into chaos and create peace.