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The spirit of young Don lives on!

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Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality from: Searching for God Knows What, Through Painted Deserts, To Own a Dragon, Storyline, Scary Close, & more...

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The Bible started changing me when I stopped reading it as a rulebook and started finding myself inside the story.

I spent years studying the story before I realized it was studying me.

[Tom Wright @profntwright]

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.
-The Case for the Psalms

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@profntwright The Bible started changing me when I stopped reading it as a rulebook and started finding myself inside the story.

I spent years studying the story before I realized it was studying me.

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I spent years trying to manage my sin when Jesus was trying to heal the deeper story beneath it.

The spiritual journey begins when we stop asking, "What's wrong with me?" and start asking, "What happened to me?"

[John Mark Comer @johnmarkcomer]

To start off the new year, we're posting material from the cutting room floor of the Practicing the Way book, remade into three podcast episodes. Consider them three mini-audio books.

All three deal with stages in the spiritual journey, and how our ...

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I used to think holiness meant behaving better. Now I wonder if it means learning to live more deeply loved.

Most of my worst habits turned out to be wounds wearing costumes.

Grace isn't God ignoring our sin; it's God loving us deeply enough to uncover its roots.

[John Mark Comer @johnmarkcomer]

To start off the new year, we're posting material from the cutting room floor of the Practicing the Way book, remade into three podcast episodes. Consider them three mini-audio books.

All three deal with stages in the spiritual journey, and how our ...

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@johnmarkcomer I spent years trying to manage my sin when Jesus was trying to heal the deeper story beneath it.

The spiritual journey begins when we stop asking, "What's wrong with me?" and start asking, "What happened to me?"

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@johnmarkcomer I used to think holiness meant behaving better. Now I wonder if it means learning to live more deeply loved.

Most of my worst habits turned out to be wounds wearing costumes.

Grace isn't God ignoring our sin; it's God loving us deeply enough to uncover its roots.

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@johnmarkcomer Somewhere along the way, many of us learned how to believe in Jesus without learning how to walk with Him.

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God is often found in conversations, road trips, and ordinary moments rather than religious performances.

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Christianity is less like passing a theology exam and more like falling in love.

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@DerekVreeland @BrianZahnd Such truth.

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@BrianZahnd Beautiful.

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The way Moses wrote wasn't unlike the way people who write musicals stop the story every once in a while to break into song. The reason Moses would do this is because there are emotions and situations and tensions that a human being feels in his life but can't explain...

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... they gathered around them because they represented a kind of gentle beauty & wisdom. This was back when you didn't have to be all young and sexy just to be a person.

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John wrote his essay a long time after Christ had left so he was very old, probably nearly ninety years old, & this was back when communities loved old people. They didn't put them in homes to watch television...

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...but because it is so scatterbrained, & has virtually no charts and graphs, I am actually quite surprised the Bible sells. Perhaps it's those lovely & colorful maps, which puzzles me because they aren't even current.

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The Bible concludes with various creepy hallucinations that, in some mysterious way, explain the future, in which, apparently, we all slip into Dungeons & Dragons outfits & fight the giant frog people. I forget how it goes exactly, & I mean no disrespect...

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I began to wonder to wonder if becoming a Christian did not work more like falling in love than agreeing with a list of true principles.

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You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later you start understanding what these poets are saying and it makes you feel as though life is something quite special with certain layers of meaning to it.

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... I would set the hose free while listening to music on my headphones; the Smiths made the hose snap around so beautifully you could get hypnotized by it.

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Sometimes I would tie the trigger open on the car-wash wand, release the hose from the holster, drop a few coins in the slot, step away, and let the black snake snap in the air, up against the tin walls of the stall and back against the pavement...