Gratitude

...is both a response and a discipline that requires a choice to be made.

The Way to Change

Chronos vs. Kairos

To Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die

That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (1580). Michel de Montaigne. Cicero says, "that to study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die."

Being human and spiritual

We can't figure out we are sinners

"No sin is more basic than the presumption, the presumption schooled by our pride, that we can know on our own what it means to say that we are sinners. Too often, I fear, our attempt to examine ourselves to discover our sins turns out to be an invitation to narcissism. We do not come to Jesus to because our sins need to be forgiven. Rather, we know we need to be forgiven, because Jesus has come to us as the one alone capable of revealing who we are without that knowledge destroying us." Minding the Web, 2018, Repentance: A Lenten Meditation, p 212.

Stanley Hauerwas on sin.

A Stanley Hauerwas quote on sin from The Peaceable Kingdom.  

We would rather be ruined than changed