Joe Chambers

Getting Out of God’s Chair Resentment is the poison we swallow while we hope the other person dies. – Unknown To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. – Lewis Smedes Who is har…

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Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.

Matthew 6:6 (MSG)

Lord, grant me the joy that dwells far within slow time.

Hunter Biden is now about three weeks and a mountain retreat away from being fully restored to ministry. - Scott Barber

YouTube video by The Sacred Journey "Slow Me Down, Lord" by Wilferd Peterson

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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

- John Ortberg

Don't let a podcast, author, or media personality be your pastor.

Your soul is deeper than that.

YouTube video by The Sacred Journey "My Words Can't Carry All the Praise" by Ted Loder

Happy Thanksgiving...from the woodshed.

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Love needs action.
Trust needs proof.
Sorry needs change.

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

- William Butler Yeats

61 years ago today, JFK, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all died. Camelot was the illusion, Brave New World the nightmare.

Live like a Narnian.

Spiritual listening is about seeking out wise counsel. It is one thing to try to hear what is in front of us it is another to willingly expose our ideas to the critical voice of a wiser heart.

Seeking wise direction is central to personal growth. We never, ever outgrow this virtue.

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The Power of Love In 1985, Huey Lewis and The News released a hit single called The Power of Love. The song put them on the map of pop culture of the eighties. I’m not a huge fan of the song, but I looked up the lyr…

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Hey Siri what’s the worst opinion ever offered?

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

-G.K. Chesterton

"Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it."

—John Coffey in "The Green Mile"

If we are not spiritual where we are and as we are, we are not spiritual at all.

-Joan Chittister

There is a difference between being doctrinally correctly and being spiritually mature.

"The church is founded on Peter who denied Christ three times and couldn't walk on water by himself"

-Flannery O'Connor

Note to all the premature Christmas decorators...

Calm down, Mary hasn't even told Joseph she's pregnant yet!

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn how to keep quiet.

Ernest Hemingway