Through The Wilderness: Following Jesus in the 21st Century ~ Marlena Graves

Sharpening perceptions of reality and providing spiritual guidance for those in the crux of wilderness experiences. Substantial spiritual nourishment for those who know or sense that Christ is anything but shallow. Encouraging readers to radically (which to Christ is normal) serve God and others. The author is teaching herself and others to read the world through the lens of the gospel and to become active participants in the local and worldwide body of Christ.

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Jun 22, 2010

Divine Relocation

Genesis 12:1-4

From the time of Abraham forward, God often removes his people from the place of familiarity and comfort to places of unfamiliarity and discomfort. He dislocates them so that they do not attempt self-sufficiency. We can call it creative dislocation. When we feel dislocated, God does his most creative work. Think of Ruth, Esther, and Daniel. All churches, except Jerusalem are in diaspora.

Notes from Duke's Center of Reconciliation's Summer Institute.

May 30, 2010

Reconcilers Blog

Hello Friends,

I am leaving for Duke Divinity tomorrow morning to attend the Summer Institute hosted by Duke's Center for Reconciliation. If you are curious or at all interested in reconciliation (God has called us to the ministry of reconciliation II Cor. 5), please click on this link: http://www.divinity.duke.edu/reconciliation/pages/aboutus/index.html

Also, there is a blog that will contain updates and thoughts from those involved in the Summer Institute. Here is the link to the Reconcilers Blog: http://reconcilers.wordpress.com/

You'll get to read about what we are up to.

Blessings to you,
Marlena

Read Old Books. They Expand Our Souls.

One excellent way to see how much our culture's passing weather patterns have influenced us is to read old books. If you recieve all your information from contemporary writers, Christian or secular, you will never perceive whole concepts that people in other generations could see. (For example, earlier generations of Christians perceived a power in sexual purity that eludes us completely; we can only fall back on "don'ts"). Every Christian should always have at his bedside at least one book that is at least fifty years old--the older the better.

Frederica Matthews-Greene