Posts on Christian Spirituality - 2004-2009

Monroe

Here are posts I made on the broad theme of Christian Spirituality. Which means things like: spiritual formation, spiritual renewal, spiritual transformation, spiritual restoration (all these terms are different!), corporate spirituality, discernment, cultural discernment, spirituality and the church, and some others.

Living the Interrupted Life

Jesus and the F-word

Jesus Did Not Drive a Cadillac

Realize Your Own Faults

Friends With God (and 289 Facebook Friends)

What the Dark Night of the Soul Is and Is Not About

We Are Becoming Normal

Live the Imbalanced Life

Escaping From Folk Christianity

Prophecy

Claiming Victimhood Is the New Multicultural Sport

You Are a Micro-Self

Rescue

Why the Prince of This World Had No Hold on Jesus

Black Friday & A Phenomenology of Discontent

Two Modes of Thankfulness

Church of the Redeemed Women

Peace

When Things Become Precious To Us...

The Boring World of Faux-Christian TV

If You Are Reading This, Then You Are Rich

Two Requests

How An Enemy Can Become a Friend

Don't Apologize for Anything

Caregiving as Crucifixion

Boredom (Merton on...)

Boredom as Anomie

Today Is the Biggest Day of Your Life

Our Irreligious Post-Christian World

The Only Legacy Worth Leaving

My Love-Need

Freedom Over Quantitative Worrying

Prayer: Asking Anything In Jesus' Name

Being Like a Child Does Not Mean Perpetual Intellectual Toddlerhood

"Air-Guitar" Religion

Mysticism as Non-Discursive Experience

Even Superman Has Problems

Grief

John 14:1 - Trust in God; Trust in Jesus

(More On) True Greatness

True Greatness

Failure

Forgiving the Inexcusable

Replace Facebook with Soulbook

Satanic Inspiration of Annoyance

Worry

Today's Christian Leaders Have Little Use for Prayer

The Rat-Race As the Race Towards Nothing

The Revolutionary Kingdom of God

On Loving Enemies

C.S. Lewis On the Real Self

The Way Out of Wheeler-ism

The Planting of the Seeds of Our Discontent: The Empty Self in "Revolutionary Road"

Get Sozo-ed Rather Than "Accept Christ"

Loving God With Your Mind (+ Signs & Wonders)

No Need to Dress Up for Church

Striving for Perfection

Worship the Giver, Not the Gifts

The Resacralizing of the World

American Christianity's Greatest Sin: Richard Stearns on The Hole In Our Gospel

Pagan Christianity: "Church" as Organic, not Institutional

A.W. Tozer

Why Doesn't God Heal Everybody?

Be Still

Jim Rayburn - Escape From Bondage to “Thou Shall Not”

Jim Rayburn Smoked Cigarettes

Richard Foster on Life With God #1

Non-Discursive Experiences of God

Easter & Non-Discursive Experience

Twitter & Our Super-Face-ial Culture

Rick Warren on the American church vs. the New Testament Church

Greg Boyd On the Kingdom of God

"Church" Is Not an Institution, But a Movement

Be Weird For the Right Reasons

Breaking Free From a Culture of Mediocrity

Who's Captaining the Ship?

Eugene Peterson Is a Subversive

Rejecting a Spirit of Religion

Work On the War In Your Own Heart

The Disease Is Us

Jesus Wants to Save Christians

Anyone For Global Repentance?

What To Spend Your Life On In 2009

Sozo

Sozo: Part 2

Eugene Peterson on the "Antichrist Church"

Chuck Norris's Voice and Mine

3 Meditations on Thankfulness

Deconstruct Self-Love to Construct a Cross

Proverbs 3:5-6

In Solitude God Morphs the Human Heart

The Invitation to Pray As God's Brilliant Idea

Heaven's Gates are... Where?

Forget American Christianity, Just Give Me Jesus

Authenticity vs. Hypocrisy

The Fear of Being Alone In the Universe

Tumor Healed after Prayer and Laying on of Hands

It’s Not Enough to Just Give Thanks For What You Have

Think About Death

America's Worship of (All-too-human) Superheroes

The Parable of God's Outrageous Love

My True Vocation

Leadership In the Church

Integrity

Freedom & Authenticity

Authenticity & Freedom

Should We Be Praying to Jesus?

Jesus Came to Bring Fire to the Earth

What Your Life Is NOT About

7 Reasons to Believe That Persons Have Souls

Essential & Contingent Attributes of a Real Move of God

You Can't Multi-task the God-Relationship

When There's a Water Emergency In Your Soul

Teaching About the Presence of God in Valley Forge

Moving From an Anxious Heart to a Trusting Heart

The Spirituality of Howard Thurman

The World Changes, Religious Impulses Remain

My Great Prayer Experiment and "Unanswered Prayers"

Not Wanting to Become What Everyone Else Wants to Become

"You Are My Refuge"

Dallas Willard on Fasting

Fasting as Spiritual Warfare: Part 2 - Some Practical Suggestions

Fasting as Spiritual Warfare: Part 1

Merton & Post-Christianity

Joy Transcends Happiness