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Jamin and Kyle
The Gift of Being a Growing Person
Rob Loane
On the walls and columns of a grey stoned sanctuary hung twelve to fifteen prints of Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal . The audience was mix of parents and grandparents and nuns and pastors and students. We were all gathered in a Beverly Hills' Anglican church to hear writer/speaker Henri Nouwen speak on his book The Return of the Prodigal: A Story of Homecoming (Image Books, 1994). That afternoon ten years ago, he beautifully wove together his own narrative with the characters of Jesus' parable (younger son, older son, father), a brief portrait of Rembrandt's life, and the story of the painting. Everyone there was invited into an understanding of the younger son, an understanding of the older son, and an encounter with the father of Luke 15.
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Will and Desire
David G. Benner
I recently had an interesting conversation with a friend who just finished reading my book Surrender to Love. He didn't like it. He told me the title had put him off because it suggested a spirituality of passivity and weakness. Having broken through his procrastination and finally gotten down to reading it, he said his initial judgment was only more strongly reinforced.
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Meditating on the Word
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How do we help our children in their individual formation?
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What do you do when you and your church are not on the same page?
April 5, 2007
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