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Have Yourself an Enchanted Little Advent
Angels are everywhere in the Bible. The Christmas season reminds us to take them seriously. Long ago, Jacob confessed, "The Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it" (Gen. 28:16). Declarations like this haunt me, in the best of ways. It makes me wonder if the world is charged with far more spiritual activity than we notice. Borrowing a word from the philosopher Charles Taylor, what if the earth is enchanted with heaven?
Christmas In One Word
What Is Christmas About? Imagine you could only use one word to answer that question. What would you write? Maybe Jesus, or Immanuel. Or maybe for you Christmas is the season of joy or hope or gifts. Perhaps your life experience has led you to dread Christmas because of family drama, holiday stress, or endless fruitcake. One would rightly suggest that Christmas has become about any of these words. But in recent years I’ve added a new word to my list, which I am happy to share with you in a moment.
How to Breathe in the Season of Lent
20,000 times. That is the number of breaths the average human draws each day. Inhale, exhale, repeat. Incredible! Just beneath our awareness level life happens inside us all day long. What does that have to do with Lent? Something, I think. Have you ever heard of “alveoli”? Alveoli are tiny sacks on the surface of your lungs to absorb the oxygen you inhale. You have 600 million of these little guys—like catcher’s mitts—trapping O2 and on its way to your blood stream.
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Eugene H. Peterson’s never-before-published wisdom for each season of the Christian year A CHRISTIANITY TODAY AND BIRMINGHAM CHRISTIAN FAMILY MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The glorious, never-dull reality of the gospel is this: Christ sets us free. All of us can be doers of the word, using the stuff of the everyday to make something to the glory of God. Long before his iconic paraphrased Bible translation, Eugene H.
Quick Picks: Mixed Media's May Reviews
The Enneagram for Spiritual Formation: How Knowing Ourselves Can Make Us More Like Jesus By AJ Sherrill Reviewed by Lorilee Craker In this wise and insightful book, AJ Sherrill offers readers an advanced course in the Enneagram, a personality theory with ancient roots that includes nine different personality types. He goes beyond the basics to unlock new ways of viewing identity, personality, discipleship, evangelism, and the Bible.
Use the Enneagram As a Spiritual Tool
PeterHermesFurian/Getty Images Although your identity is never reduced to your personality, the two are connected, and here, understanding the Enneagram can be a useful tool for spiritual development. You are not your Enneagram number. Identity is complicated, especially in a society that constantly tosses us dehumanizing life scripts with which to define ourselves.
Where is God on Monday?
The subject line of Ellen's email read, "Urgent." Her job in the fashion industry placed her on a team with a woman whose presence she had recently begun to dread. Over-worked and under-resourced, the pressures of a deadline can make enemies of us all. But this day was different. Her coworker had been handed a two weeks notice letter.
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