Sublime

separation from God is real, but the meeting of stillness reveals that this perceived separation does not have the last word.

For us to move deeply into God’s deep movement in us, “whose margins are God’s margins,” as R. S. Thomas puts it, the senses must learn to abide in stillness.

There is an underlying joy and peace that can be known and that doesn’t end. When you can practice being yourself and going beyond a limiting story, you create the conditions for transformation and begin walking a path of freedom.

foundational for any congregation’s ministry and witness. They are

true wisdom is only gained as we plant our lives within the community of faith, following exemplars; living the day-in, day-out struggle of the cruciform life; feasting on God’s Word; and breaking bread as the body of Christ.

INTERVENE.

The age of authenticity has made everything natural, material, and cultural, leading us to seek robust, consequential, and vital processes of faith formation that persuade individuals to authentically choose the path of Christian faith over all the other paths before them.

Who we are is deeper than where we find ourselves in this moment. And Jesus illuminates that deeper identity.

Dan Allender: “You are the only you this world will know, and something about your life is meant to make something about God known in a way no one else can do.”