Through His Eyes

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.Rom.12:2 (MSG) Then you can see things through His eyes.

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I have the best job in the world. I am the Pastor and Church planter of Life Connection Church. I am married to Lisa for 27 years and have two adult children, Brooke 23, Nick 21 that have been and still are an incredible blessing to my life. Brooke is a graduate of UTA and is in the corporate world and Nick is a business major at Texas Christian University.

Saturday, October 08, 2005

Ancient Spiritual Wisdom to Heal Our Troubled Modern Souls - Henri Nouwen


The Way of the Heart, by Henri Nouwen
Connecting With God through Prayer, Wisdom, and Silence

Solitude - "the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter...the place of our salvation."

Silence - "First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.

Prayer - The prayer of the heart opens the eyes of our soul to the truth of ourselves as well as to the truth of God. The prayer of the heart challenges us to hide absolutely nothing."

Nouwen wrote this book inspired by the ancient teachings of St. Anthony and the desert fathers. In a very busy world where we are constantly surrounded by noise and busyness, it is important as apprentices of Christ that we slow down and deliberately get still and quiet and know that God is God.

This book is a great challenge to reevaluate and refocus on Jesus by developing the spiritual diciplines that will help you grow in Christ. It is a little book with a strong message.

an apprentice of Jesus growing to see thing through His eyes
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1 Comments:

Blogger Ileana said...

I'll have to check out this book. I believe prayer changes us as well as the situations in our lives, bringing us closer to God as well. This is my first time visiting your blog. I'll be back.

8:27 AM, October 09, 2005  

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