Do me a favor...

"If you've gottan anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care -- then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enought to lend a helping hand." - Paul (The Message)

Sufjan Stevens

"I have an incredible awe for the natural world and the divinely inspired environment. I'm always trying to evoke that or portray that lyrically. But I think I also have a similar kind of awe for the day-to-day. For me, a ceiling fan or air conditioner or dictionary can hold incredible, supernatural meaning. It's very exciting to think about the workmanship of man, created in the image of God...in some ways, I think it's our way of mimicking the natural world, which is an imprint of this great creative force."

-Sufjan Stevens,
in Relevant Magazine.

Everything Belongs

"my starting point is that we're already there. we cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. whats absent is awareness. little do we realize that God is maintaining us in existence with every breath we take. as we take another, it means God is choosing us NOW...and NOW......and NOW.........and NOW."

Everything Belongs

by Richard Roll

Unanswered Questions

And so today, some of my most PROFOUND MOMENTS with God come not during church services or reading works of theology or even reading the Bible. They come in all sorts of surprising places - a song, a hug from a friend, a good laugh.

Or sometimes, these incredible moments with God come in SILENT, PAINFUL times - times of not knowing, times when you sit and wonder why life turned out the way it did, times spent wondering why your wife left, times spend wondering why you have to HURT so badly.

And slowly, you come to sense deep within your soul that it will be OK, that the tension between FAITH and DOUBT, knowing and NOT knowing, FACT and MYSTERY is a tension worth embracing.

-Cameron Conant (Relevant Magazine)