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of an imperfect journey
More Good Reads...
Good Books
- Wounded Continent (Tom Griner)
- Whatever Happened to Worship? (A.W. Tozer)
- Tozer On The Holy Spirit : A Daily Devotional (Compiled by Marilynne E. Foster)
- Tortured For Christ (Richard Wurmbrand)
- The Shack (William P. Young)
- The Sacrament of the Present Moment (Jean-Pierre De Caussade)
- The Pursuit of God (A.W. Towzer)
- The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence)
- The Messege (Eugene Peterson)
- The Kingdom of God Is a Party (Tony Campolo)
- The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical (Shane Claiborne)
- The Heavenly Man (Paul Hattaway & Brother Yun)
- The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
- The Forgotten Ways (Alan Hirsch)
- The Final Quest (Rick Joyner)
- The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
- Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
- No Compromise. The Life Story of Keith Green (Melody Green)
- Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta (Edited and With Commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuk)
- Life Of The Beloved (Henri J.M. Nouwen)
- Imitation of Christ (Thomas A'Kempis)
- I Dared to Call Him Father (Bilquis Sheikh)
- How To Read The Bible For All It's Worth (G. Fee & D. Stuart)
- Hind's Feet on High Places (Hannah Hurnard)
- From Brokenness To Community (Jean Vanier)
- Courageous Leadership (Bill Hybels)
- Captivating (John & Staci Eldredge)
3 comments:
Please expand on this. I feel certain...I know that we were shown how.
I think that the reason that Jesus didn't give us a black and white definition of Orthopraxy is because there isn't one. You aren't Jesus so you can't live EXACTLY like Him. You can try to live in His image but the fact remains that you are not Him. Different situations will dictate different actions that need to be made and He wants you to screw up so that you'll learn. It's OK to! He did give us a great example and I guess I was wrong when I said that we were shown how. We were given an amazing example but we are human and error is expected. This isn't an excuse it is grace. When you talked about just taking that step of faith it made me think of Indiana Jones when he had to step out onto the invisible bridge as a leap of faith. I am excited about our conversations as well.
Eowyn and Indiana Jones weren't fearless. You could see the fear on both of them. It radiated from them. They were brave or courageous. Bravery is nothing more than the decision that there is something more important than the fear. And this brings me to the first question that I had asked and that was what is fear. I will post that on my blog right now and I look forward to what you have to say. It seems harder to have that bravery with Jesus sometimes because it isn't tangible and sometimes there isn't that immediate threat. The problem is that there is always a threat. Satan is right there to lure us into failing, temptation, evil, sin.....but he's just so sly about it. He disguises it so well and has had a lot more practice than we have. We're the lucky ones because we have God with us as long as we can be brave in that trust. Therein lies the hard part again and Satan knows it and exploits it. OK I'm rambling. We just need to get together sometime and do this in personas well. Natalie said that she would like to get in on it as well. Let's make it happen but in the mean time keep it coming. Be blessed.
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