I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.
Don Miller
I need more than a bedtime story, I need more than a youth group God.I am looking for a savior. A guide. An existential answer to my questions about purpose and meaning. I want true fulfilment in my Christian faith. I am looking for joy.
purpose faith
I realized in and instant that I desired false gods because Jesus wouldn't jump through my hoops, and I realized that, like Tony, my faith was about image and ego, not about practicing spirituality.
faith
Tony the Beat Poet says the words alone, lonely and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language. I agree with Tony. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
language
Too much chicken soup for the soul is not a good thing. Working men eat meat and potatoes.
men
In America, the first generation out of slavery invented jazz music. It is a free-form expression. It comes from the soul and it is true.
slavery music
You know, Don, marriage is worth the trade. You lose all your freedom but you get this friend. This incredible friend.
marriage worth
I had the image of a spiritual person, but I was bowing down to the idols of religiosity and philosophy.
philosophy
I honestly don't believe we will be solving the greater human conflict with our efforts. The problem is not a certain type of legislation or even a certain politician; the problem is the same that it has always been. I am the problem.
effort
Here's what I've started thinking: All the wonder of God happens right above our arithmetic and formula. The more I climb outside my pat answers, the more invigorating the view, the more my heart enters into worship.
rights wonder wonders
wonder wonders
Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline into a car without wheels.
car
The problem with Christian belief--I mean real Christian belief, the belief that there is a God and a devil and a heaven and a hell--is that it is not a fashionable thing to believe.
belief
Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don't even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.
If worship is sustenance, then modern worship is fast food.
food
What was more frustrating than the loss of exhiliration was the return of my struggles with sin. I had become a Christian, so why did I still struggle with lust, greed, and envy? Why did I want to get drunk at parties or cheat on tests?
tests
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