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The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas
Willard has produced an extraordinary volume. An award winning look at spiritual
life and spiritual disciplines. His section on the Sermon on the Mount
is inspired.
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Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton's
brusque style while defending Christianity doesn't qualify him as the world's first 'shock-jock,' but he will get your attention.
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Reflections On The Psalms
C. S. Lewis brings his considerable intellect, sensitivity and literary skills to
advance our understanding of the Psalms.
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God Is The One Who Is!
Henri J. M. Nouwen, Here and Now, Living in the Spirit,
Crossroad, New York, 1994, pp. 17, 18.
SoAmazing.com
Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0824519671
Keywords: doubt, faith, truth, God, Jesus, Pascal,
John the Baptist, Peter, freedom, church, Zondervan,
Yancey, Philip Yancey
"It is hard to live in the
present. The past and the
future keep harassing us. The past with guilt, the
future with worries. So many things have happened in
our lives about which we feel uneasy, regretful, angry,
confused, or at least, ambivalent. And all these
feelings are often colored by guilt. Guilt that says:
'You ought to have done something other than what
you did; you ought to have said something other than
what you said.' These 'oughts' keep us feeling
guilty about the past and prevent us from being fully
present to the moment.
Worse, however, than our guilt are our worries. Our
worries fill our lives with 'What ifs': ' What if I
lose my job, what if my father dies, what if there is
not enough money, what if the economy goes down, what
if a war breaks out?' These many 'ifs' can so fill
our mind that we become blind to the flowers in the
garden and the smiling children on the streets, or
deaf to the grateful voice of a friend.
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the
'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past
and forward into the unpredictable future. But real
life takes place in the here and the now. God is a God
of the present. God is always in the moment, be that
moment hard or easy, joyful or painful. When Jesus
spoke about God, he always spoke about God as being
where and when we are. 'When you see me, you see God.
When you hear me you hear God.' God is not someone
who was or will be, but the one who is, and who is for
me in the present moment. That's why Jesus came to
wipe away the burden of the past and the worries for
the future. He wants us to discover God right where
we are, here and now."
SoAmazing Review:
Henri Nouwen had the gift of plain talking when it came
to spiritual matters. His focus was good sense which
he delivered conscious that God is
of the moment and knowable by us.
"When I get overbusy and overwrought I try to follow
Jesus' example and take time from all the unimportant
little things that are making demands of me, and go
off to be alone with God." Madeleine L'Engle, p. 109,
Bright Evening Star.
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