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A God Big Enough Not to Bore Us (3)
We conclude this application of the ancient virtue of humility by thinking about God in a way that has less potential to bore us. As we’ve said, as soon as we reduce the un-reducible God to an image in our minds, we inevitably create a God that is not worthy of our life, our pursuits.
One of the casualties of lost humility is lost wonder and awe. Let’s not do that, shall we? Continue reading
A God Big Enough Not to Bore Us (2)
Continuing from last week…
Humility is a precursor to awe and wonder which in turn, awaken us to a God too big to be reduced into a mental construct. This, it turns out, is a recipe for a religion that inspires us, surprises us, and draws us into the Way, Truth, and Life. This is Jesus’ god. It can be ours too.
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A God Big Enough Not to Bore Us (1)
Humility, it turns out, is a precursor to awe and wonder. Awe and wonder, it turns out, awakens us to a God too big to be reduced into a mental construct. This, it turns out, is a recipe for a religion that inspires us, surprises us, and draws us into the Way, Truth, and Life. This is Jesus’ god. It can be ours too. Continue reading
The Spirituality of How We Think About God (2)
Today, we conclude this short, 2-week lesson looking at how we think about God. Our “God-as-Person” metaphor, we see, limits our spirituality. We’re looking at a more expansive spirituality available to us when transcend our historical tendency to explain God with too much precision.
As we dismantle our images of God, reform them, in the process, we awaken to a new dimension of spiritual experience. Continue reading
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Tagged awe, Creation, Image of God, immanence/transcendence, Incomprehensibility of God
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