A Ragamuffin Knows He's Only A Beggar

Jesus Comes Not For The Super-spiritual But For The Wobbly And The Weak-kneed Who Know They Don’t Have It All Together, And Who Are Not Too Proud To Accept The Handout Of Amazing Grace.

The Life Of Jesus Suggests That To Be Like Abba Is To Show Compassion. Donald Gray Expresses This: "jesus Reveals In An Exceptionally Human Life What It Is To Live A Divine Life, A Compassionate Life.

The Trouble With Our Ideals Is That If We Live Up To All Of Them, We Become Impossible To Live With.

The Cultural Propaganda Embodied In Two Liquor Advertisements, "living Well Is The Best Revenge" And "sip It With Arrogance," Have A Curious, Perhaps Demonic Appeal. Consumerism Indeed Has Its Own Spirituality.

I Am Deeply Distressed By What I Only Can Call In Our Christian Culture The Idolatry Of The Scriptures. For Many Christians, The Bible Is Not A Pointer To God But God Himself... God Cannot Be Confined Within The Covers Of A Leather-bound Book. I Develop A Nasty Rash Around People Who Speak As If Mere Scrutiny Of Its Pages Will Reveal Precisely How God Thinks And Precisely What God Wants.