This week’s featured book: Writings of Teresa of Avila by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection [God] is starting to cultivate a garden on very barren soil, full of abominable weeds. His majesty pulls up the weeds and plants good seed. . . . All of this is already done by the time a soul

This week’s featured book: The Art of Spiritual Direction by W. Paul Jones   Today’s Reflection Spirituality is the name for living out one’s salvation as wholeness. However this living is expressed, the primary activities of the church’s life need to be a means to this end. —W. Paul Jones, The Art of Spiritual Direction:

This week’s featured book: The Art of Spiritual Direction by W. Paul Jones   Today’s Reflection We are what we remember, with commitment and a determination born of knowing what we dare not forget. . . . In spirituality, everything depends on remembering and re-remembering. The only Jesus we have is the remembered one. —W.

This week’s featured book: The Art of Spiritual Direction by W. Paul Jones   Today’s Reflection The intent of [the discipline of silence] is to lose oneself in the fact of being, by quieting the mind, or focusing on one’s center. All thoughts are turned off, stopping one in the immediacy of the now. —W.

This week’s featured book: The Art of Spiritual Direction by W. Paul Jones   Today’s Reflection Spiritual direction is hard work for both persons. It involves a listening beyond hearing, intent on discerning a clarity that transcends the person’s emotional maze and convoluted intricacies of behavior. —W. Paul Jones, The Art of Spiritual Direction: Giving

This week’s featured book: The Art of Spiritual Direction by W. Paul Jones   Today’s Reflection The overarching Christian doctrine is salvation, meaning “to render healthy and whole.” . . . To understand how this works, the Christian is forced to distinguish the human condition (the way we are) from human nature (the way God

This week’s featured book: The Art of Spiritual Direction by W. Paul Jones   Today’s Reflection Each of us has a God, maybe several, that determines the dynamic of our lives. . . . One’s functional God provides the why that flavors the how, where, and who of one’s Monday mornings. Who we are depends

This week’s featured book: The Art of Spiritual Direction by W. Paul Jones   Today’s Reflection Deep within our souls, actually as proof that we have a soul, is a profound something that will not be quieted. Experienced negatively, this something seems to be an emptiness, an ache. . . . Experienced positively, it is

This week’s featured book: Soul Reset by Junius B. Dotson   Today’s Reflection I’m not hiding from anybody. I’ve discovered that God’s love for me is not dependent upon my productivity or my positivity. Because I am close to Jesus, I can be vulnerable, and my vulnerability might help others —Junius B. Dotson, Soul Reset:

This week’s featured book: Soul Reset by Junius B. Dotson   Today’s Reflection Especially for pastors and church leaders, we get focused on numbers, budgets, growth, and programs because those are the “measurables.” But we forget that Jesus invited us into a life-changing relationship, a companionship meant to bring wholeness. —Junius B. Dotson, Soul Reset: