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Jennifer Lentfer • Friday’s Poetic Pause: “For One Who Holds Power” by John O’Donohue – How Matters
The point of having power in ministry is to glorify God by loving people.”
Jon Tyson • The Burden Is Light: Liberating Your Life from the Tyranny of Performance and Success
Liturgies, then, are calibration technologies. They train our loves by aiming them toward a certain telos. But not all liturgies are created equal: some miscalibrate our hearts, pointing us off course toward pseudo or rival norths.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Gorman says beautifully, “For Paul, to be in Christ is to be a living exegesis of this narrative of Christ, a new performance of the original drama of exaltation following humiliation, of humiliation as the voluntary renunciation of rights and selfish gain in order to serve and obey.”26
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
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James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
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- To serve is to be free. One of the prayers from the Book of Common Prayer says that to serve God is “perfect freedom.” While this may seem counterintuitive in our contemporary age, we see its truth beautifully played out in the life of Jesus, who came among us as a servant. In his generous and glad service to the world, which he performed in equall