Quotes on The Wounded Healer (Henry Nouwen)

by ray | Aug 23, 2011 | Quotes

A minster is not a doctor whose primary task is to take away pain. Rather, he deepens the pain to a level where it can be shared. When someone comes with his loneliness to the minister, he can only expect that his loneliness will be understood and felt, so that he no...

1 Cor 1:10-31 – Celebrity Christians vs. the Cross (pt 1 of 3)

by ray | Jul 18, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons

Text: 1 Cor 1:10-31 I used to work for a dot.com in West Hollywood for about 4 years and during that span, I saw a bunch of celebrities: Ron Howard, Bill Murray, the Japanese character Hiro from the TV series Heroes, the cheerleader from Heroes, Baron Davis, the...

Rom 14-15: Building True Unity – The Nuts and Bolts of Church Life (pt3 of 3)

by ray | Jun 6, 2011 | NT, Reflections, Romans, Sermons

What about at a church level? What does judgment and gossip, mixed in with anger, do to a church? It divides people into various camps. In the church at Rome, you have Jewish Christians on one side judging the Gentile Christians. Imagine a conversation between two...

Verses Leading up to the Passion of Christ, Good Friday and Easter

by ray | Apr 14, 2011 | Devotionals, Easter, Topical Studies

Here is a chronological grouping of verses from the 4 gospels according to key events and sayings. Hope this helps you in your prayers this week and next. Verses (.pdf)Verses (.docx)

Oswald Chamber Devotional: The Abandonment of God

by ray | Apr 7, 2011 | Devotionals

“God so loved the world that He gave. . .” ~John 3:16 Salvation is not merely deliverance from sin, nor the experience of personal holiness; the salvation of God is deliverance out of self entirely into union with Himself. My experimental knowledge of...