Andy Hoffman

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Faithfulness is consecration in overalls. It is the steady acceptance and performance of the common duty and immediate task without reference to personal preferences—becuase it is there to be done and so is a manifestation of the Will of God. […]

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Indeed, the very object of prayer is to increase and maintain Charity, the loving friendship of the soul with God. All other aspects of the inner life are subsidiary to this and only of value insofar as they contribute to

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Adoration implies: The upward and outward look of humble and joyful admiration. Awestruck delight in the splendor and beauty of God, the action of God and Being of God, in and for God’s self alone. —Evelyn Underhill, edited by Keith

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection If God is All and God’s Word to us is All, that must mean that God is the reality and controlling factor of every situation, religious or secular. . . . Therefore our favorite distinction between the spiritual life and

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Scripture is iconographic. One of the interesting features of some icons is that the farther you look into the picture, the larger things become rather than smaller. . . . It totally reverses our normal artistic perspective in which

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Reading for formation avoids quantifying the amount of reading in any sort of way. . . . So what if it takes you a year, two years, five years to get through the book? That is not the point.

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection You are a “word” of God! Every human being is a word that God speaks into existence. . . . [Paul] says that we are a word of God “spoken forth” even before the foundation of the world. —M.

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Every action taken, every response made, every dynamic of relationship, every thought held, every emotion allowed. . . . We are being shaped either toward the wholeness of the image of Christ or toward a horribly destructive caricature of

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Listen for God to speak to you in and through, around and within, over and behind and out front of everything that you read. Keep asking yourself, “What is God seeking to say to me in all of this?”

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection When God puts a “finger” on those things in our lives that are inconsistent with God’s will for our wholeness, it is not simply to point them out. . . .That finger has a hand attached that offers us