Sublime

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To be before we do, to follow the crucified—not the “Americanized”—Jesus, to embrace God’s gift of limits, to discover the treasures buried in grief and loss, to make love the core measure of maturity, to break the power of the past, and to lead out of weakness and vulnerability.

make plausible the claim that the love of God and of neighbor is the key to human flourishing. . . . [and] to actually believe that God is fundamental to human flourishing” (Volf, 2011, 73-74).

One of the communities I love is a group of folks who gather below an interstate bridge in Waco, Texas, each week for worship. They creatively call themselves Church under the Bridge.5 Over a decade ago, homeless folks and their friends began meeting for Bible study and grub, and now there are hundreds of folks from all walks of life trying to figu

Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

as we mature in Christ, the focus of our lives should increasingly shift to living a life of service. The mature follower of Jesus stops asking, “Who’s going to meet my needs?” and starts asking, “Whose needs can I meet?” Do you ever ask that question?

Your home will be a pastor’s home. From it, light and strength will have to go out into many other homes. The pastor undertakes a life of special discipline. The husband must bear alone much that belongs to his ministry, since the ministry is his and must, for the sake of God, be a silent one. So his love