Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Nov 4, 2009, 2:32 pm
In other words there is a great danger in facile and thoughtless verbalizations of spiritual reality. All true spiritual disciplines recognize the peril of idolatry in the irresponsible fabrication of...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Oct 16, 2009, 9:32 pm

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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Sep 9, 2009, 8:25 pm
How can I lead people to find the spirituality of work from the ivory tower of vocational church life?  How can my spiritual formation matter to people in the real world when I am seen as an oddi...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Sep 4, 2009, 11:51 pm
In our ministerial group we have on occasion batted around the question: does God have a real needs? Does God need us? Does God need companionship? Does God need our service? In thinking so about...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Aug 25, 2009, 10:28 pm
The central question facing Christian leaders today, I think, is: Are we going to be led? Nouwen rightly points out that the cure to the temptation to relevance is mysticism. The Christian leader mu...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Aug 25, 2009, 2:59 pm
Anxiety threatened to steal my day Opressed me like the mourning A frieght train whistled Delivering me to the Eternity of an Indian summer
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Aug 1, 2009, 3:39 pm
Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee - St. AugustineLast night as I was praying night prayer with di...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Jul 29, 2009, 3:28 pm
View Biking in a larger map Today, I didn't bike to Unionville as I would normally do. The espresso machine is disconnected at the coffeehouse until the health dept. finally comes through. In a...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Jul 8, 2009, 3:26 pm

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