Adult Discipleship (Page 2)
Hollywood and God – The Reel Story
“Art is the embodiment of man’s response to reality and his attempt to order his experience of that reality. Man has always and will continue to express his hope and excitement, as well as his fears and reservations about life, death, and what it means to be human through the arts. He will seek to express his world through all available means, and presently that…
Psalms of Ascent-Books to Read
Here is the list of books I (Matt) mentioned in class when we studied Psalm 123 –“Service- The Right Posture” I highly recommend this book on humility –A Guide to Living in the Truth: Saint Benedict’s Teaching on Humility by Michael Casey (ISBN 978-0-7648-0739-8). The Rule of St. Benedict (Chapter 7 in particular) (In English -ISBN 0-8146-1272-5). The…
Jesus Plus…
Last week we finished our study in the second of the Psalms of Ascent, Psalm 121. A lot of discussion surrounded the question of where we look for solutions to the inevitable discomforts of trying to live as 21st Century pilgrims following God. Apparently, the pilgrims of this psalm, journeying to Jerusalem, were confronted with a number of options to trusting only in God…
Lessons Learned
Several weeks have passed since our last posting – a time in which some important things have been learned by the authors. These lessons in discernment came (as they often do) disguised in mundane, seemingly ordinary events. Let me digress a bit….animals have been a part of our lives for the 36 years we’ve been married….Katrina, Kaiser, Karmel, Caleb, Cody, Indy and…
Tourists or Pilgrims
According to the World Tourism Organization, 946 billion dollars were spent globally on tourism in 2008. While the economic downturn has no doubt had an impact on that figure over the past couple years, there seems to be little doubt that we are a culture of tourists. There are things to see, places to visit and digital cameras to fill with exciting pictures. I confess…
Trust
Mention the word “trust” today and you may very well launch a lengthy and heated discussion on why we don’t trust (politicians, church leaders, spouses, God) or what trust does look like when it’s put to the test. This is an especially lively topic when its target is “the God we cannot see.” Intrinsic to all trust is the surrendering of something of ourselves to another.…