“Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence.”
Eugene Peterson - p.96, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
Those who I look up to are always joyful. Even with the greeting in passing, their joy is contagious. That is something I wish I could give to people, a contagious joy. It is [...]
Any work done faithfully and well is difficult. It is not harder for me to do my job well than for any other person, and no less. There are no easy tasks in the Christian way; there are only tasks that can be done faithfully or erratically, with joy or with resentment. And there is [...]
“…Everyday I put faith on the line. I have never seen God. In a world where nearly everything can be weighted, explained, quantified, subjected to psychological analysis and scientific control, I persist in making the center of my life a God whom no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, whose will no one can probe…
Everyday [...]
“…But if I accept any of these assignments I misunderstand my proper work, for God doesn’t need me to defend him. He doesn’t need me for a press secretary, explaining to the world that he didn’t really say what everyone thought they heard in that interview with Job, or that the quotation of his word [...]
I’ve grown up with the assumption that actions without feelings are meaningless and that it would have been better to not act at all. The wrong feelings would compromise integrity, epitomize hypocrisy and nullify any good that came of the action. This view was especially true for me in worship. I felt like the worship [...]
