LRC, Houston – the weekends-free church in Houston, Texas
You haven’t really lived until you’ve had an encounter with God to which there are no words to describe. Has the Holy Spirit ever shown you something that just excited you beyond reason? You rush to tell a friend all about it and when you are done, you see that blank stare on their face and you realize they do’t get it. You also sense that they think you’re a little crazy.
Like, what have you been smoking?
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I have been increasingly drawn to St. Francis Of Assisi. I guess that I’d have to give credit to Richard Rohr for that. I’m not sure of all the reasons why. Yes, I do love animals. No, I don’t like poverty. Yes, I did like the movie of his life. No, I don’t plan on wearing a tunic or going barefoot. Of all the great attributes he embodied, I am impressed with the LET IT BE lifestyle.
LET IT BE is a natural enemy to our ego!
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In the absence of a meaningful ontological mindset, we drift around aimlessly in MY STORY. Jean Houston said it this way, “When we do not have mythlogy, all we have left is pathology”. In our egoic pride and arrogance, we’ve majored on what we think we know: doctrine, laws, concepts, denominational drivel, and hermeneutical trivia ad nauseum. In our religious smugness we’ve described the veins in the leaf of a single tree, and not seen the tree it hangs from, much less the forest that engulfs it and us.
How’s your religion and belief system working for you (Dr. Phil)?
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May 28, 2006 – The greatest law is love, and love is best expressed to God and man through serving. We have to get out of self-righteous service and begin true service – which builds community and gives us the chance to reach the world.
Few will want to read what I’m about to say. Some will say it’s totally wrong: maybe it is, maybe I am, but therein is part of what I am going to say anyway.
There are times when you just have to live with the junk and crap of life, and believe me, there are plenty of opportunities to do just that. I am on a journey to finding as much “pure light” as I can: both in Him and in me. In the meantime though I live in what I’ll call SHADOWLAND. It’s a place where the rubber meets the road, where religious games get knocked out of the competition early on.
The wheat and the weeds (tares) must learn to live together!
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While the church, particularly in America, focuses on sin management, Jesus’ message was abou t the Kingdom. While Christians emphasize doctrine, rules and regulations, Jesus was in to relationships and Kingdom building. Jesus came to tell us of the Kingdom. His first words were to REPENT because the Kingdom was at, hand, near-by, and had come.
So, why aren’t we Kingdom people?
How have we been led astray into our current environment?
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It will probably never happen, but why not dream a little?
George Bernard Shaw said, “Some people see things that are, and say WHY. Others see things that never have been and say WHY NOT?” I guess I’m putting my question in that category too. What I’m asking or proposing isn’t all that monumental, on the surface; however, in the annals of history, it’s way up there. So, here’s my thought-question.
Is it possible to NOT tell someone they are wrong?
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I received a phone call this morning a little after 6am: a friend in another city was “soaking” in the spiritual juices of reading, Jesus’ Plan for a New World. It’s a ten year old book by Richard Rohr. In the last year+, I’ve recommended several books that have made people cry, scream, cuss, yell, and get angry. This is the first time though to get a an early morning call of “thanks”.
Maybe the winds of fate are blowing from a different direction!
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So, what is the Bible? What is it all about? What I’ve discovered in the last year or so is that it’s not what I had thought, not what I’d been taught. It’s now more ALIVE than I could have ever imagined. The Spirit of it has been brought back to life. I can’t get enough of it; however, in sharing how great the Bible is to me today, I’ve found some resistence as some do not share the same illumination.
Let me start with my definition of the Bible.
I believe the Bible is the Word of God, expressing His will to us: inerrant in the original autographs; inspired as a unique composition, communicating His nature and being through various genres; and, infallible in it’s transformational salvistic mission.
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The Halfs
You’re not preaching, they question?
There’s something about the second half of life that we should be doing differently than the first half. Many somethings! I not only take off on holiday weekend Sundays, I also try my best to do NOTHING! If I were to preach on those holiday weekend, there’d be none for me. So, a game of hearts with family and a bad movie, is all I’ve been able to fit into the first twenty four hours of the seventy-two holiday weekend.
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