Metaphors are powerful. They inform our identity and the way we see the world. If you change someone’s metaphor, you can change deeply held beliefs about themselves and others, about the world and its meaning. Metaphors can both heal and cause damage. A bad metaphor...
O Lord, may nothing dwell in my soul But your pure love alone. Till my every thought, word, and act be love. Yes Lord, may your love posses me whole; You’re my joy, my treasure, my crown! (“A Plain Account of Christian Perfection” by John Wesley. Paraphrased by Bill...
Soul Keeping: Caring for the Most Important Part of You John Ortberg –Review by Landrum P. Leavell III, ThD. “Sometimes the soul gets sifted and shaped in places you could never imagine and ways you could never expect. For me it was in Box Canyon.”...
Rather than thinking of dark as evil and light as good, expand your horizons with these magnificent scriptural metaphors! These have so many meanings that are awesome in scripture, especially when it comes to the “creative” energy of God, the Logos of Jesus, and...
Dear God, Born blind and deaf, your servant Helen lived a remarkable life. Let me contemplate for a moment what it must be like to discover that you live in total silence and total darkness… –Helen...
