Author: bruce

For the believer, Easter represents the annual celebration of Christ’s victory over death. Each year, as the Jewish people commemorate God’s merciful and miraculous deliverance out of Egyptian slavery, Christians…
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I’ve been reading “The Divine Conspiracy” by Dallas Willard. Spoiler alert, the conspiracy is that “God’s desire for us is that we should live in Him.” You remember, “in him…
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Sudden expired the legal strife,‘Twas then I ceased to grieve;My second, real, living lifeI then began to live. On Sunday, May 21, 1739, exactly one year after experiencing the liberating…
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Thomas Merton aptly noted, “It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not.” 1 To embrace an idea of oneself, without being grounded in God’s reality…
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For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God – Romans 8:14 According to Thomas Merton1 (1915-1968), humanity’s purpose in life is to discover…
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How do life’s valleys form us? Discovering our values in the depths.

Every one of us enjoys feeling welcome and at home. Hospitality is a spiritual grace, a gift from the holy spirit to be experienced whenever, and wherever Jesus people are…
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As the weather warms, Deb and I are resuming our walks. It hasn’t rained in a few weeks and the paths are looking quite weathered. I found the cracks interesting…
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I’ve been meditating on this passage from Habukuk. “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, just as the waters cover the sea”…
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On the night of his betrayal, all four Gospels record Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane in agonizing communion with the Father. If ever there was a scene to dispel…
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