You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. -- Matthew 5:8 (The Message) Notice that God does NOT say, "Blessed are the perfect." Purity of heart, that is, the inner life, is not the same thing as perfection. This beatitude is for normal people who mess up, who fail, who sin, who don't have it together, who think less of themselves than they should. "Purity" means those who seek and serve God in accordance with the truth in his Word and in … [Read more...] about Devotions: Beatitudes (6) —Pure in Heart
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Review: An Unhurried Life
In An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest Alan Fadling contends many of us are suffering from hurry sickness, and that it is not only detrimental to our bodies but also to our souls. We are going too fast to hear God, too fast to grow deeply, too fast to discern the temptations that lead us astray. He begins by painting a picture of the frenetic life that characterizes modern life. He contrasts this with the idea of apprenticeship with Jesus, the unhurried learning with him. He argues from the … [Read more...] about Review: An Unhurried Life
“Finding Our Calcutta” on Campus
Over the past several days in venue after venue across Pittsburgh and South Central PA, I heard Mary Poplin, Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University, share not only her testimony, but also the cost of following Christ in higher education. As you may remember from The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar and Appendix A of Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service, Mary considers it part of her call/Calcutta to challenge the gods of our age as they reign on … [Read more...] about “Finding Our Calcutta” on Campus