This is what turns an admiration for a faith into a fully lived and transforming faith. We are all “that woman” at the well. This is what makes true disciples.
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Pulling us into, introducing us to these big events
And we see the great redemptive love poured out from the cross as this sin-and-grace dance is played and portrayed a thousand times and more in the word of God.
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To really listen
And he asks: “Do you see and can you hear and will you live the life of heaven on earth?”
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Servanthood demands from us that we know how to, actually wash the feet of others
And so we need to become individually, as well as a community, of foot washers.
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Letting the good bless us
Don’t perform in order to be praised and noticed. Do the good; serve others.
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The war between the flesh and Spirit
Or to put it in another way and in other words: “You will get back from others what you give out to others.”
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Do we ever experience the voice of God clearly speaking to us in the ordinary?
Visions of prophets, a glorified transfiguration, bright lights, and voices — all streamed together to “call” the disciples deeper into the mystery of God revealed in Jesus.
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Loving with all of one’s self, one’s being is a different kind of love
It is a freeing love. It is the love of the cross. It is a love that cannot be conquered by hate. It is a love that can transform hate and even, some would say, change the world.
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Godliness is the only way to really live
Advice well given! Advice well taken!
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Be open to the movement of the Spirit!
It causes you and me not only to find more things out there, but also in here — within ourselves.
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