God In All Things

Religion tends to operate from the perspective of how we need God, but the truth is, God needs us.

Sometimes, in our efforts for self-improvement, we come against tendencies that are so engrained in our personality they are hard to change. Engaging in deep practices can help us better trust in the slow work of God.

The pandemic has revealed the tension between our experiences of poverty and abundance. It's fitting to reflect on that this Advent season.

Gratitude is a cyclical force of creative love that feeds itself. It transforms us and opens our eyes to the divine goodness in all things.

Let's not lose our amazement and delight in the world we had so easily as children. Are you able to see the magic of God all around you?

God in all things also means all things in God. Can we accept that we are a part of God, that we make God whole?

Our true selves are within us but sometimes we need a mirror to be held up before us so we can see it, and also see those false-self layers that need to be shed.

Do you read the Gospel and Jesus' statements through a lens of threat or a lens of freedom? How you do will make a big difference of how you see God, church, and religion.

The ego cares about our possessions, our status, and our group membership – all things that are passing. The spiritual life ought to lead us to put our stock in the lasting promise of God.

When we pray using our imagination we might worry that the content of our prayer is not of God, but of our own makings. Here are a few ways you can discern the "voice" in your prayer.

Sometimes we fall into a one-sided relationship with God. We ask for, take, obey, and do what we can so God keeps loving us. That's not a relationship based on genuine love.

We need to balance the inner work required to fight racism, transforming our own hearts, in addition to outer work like advocacy.

My wife Sarah reflects on the life-giving power of the breath.

For many of us these days our energies are focused in fewer places than normal, which means those energy streams are intensified. When we’ve given of ourselves over and over and spent our energies in places longer than we ever would have imagined, we can quickly find our wells dry. I’m having to give even […]

Zoom fatigue, parenting fatigue, pandemic fatigue! Can we have courage to trust God in the midst of this rather than cling to false securities?

Struggling with boredom? God may be using it to unveil difficult truths.

How will this pandemic reshape church? What will the future of Christianity look like?

It's hard to find the good spirit in the midst of this pandemic, but it's all around us.

An audio meditation on your belovedness. You are loved. Period.

The evil spirit uses the tactics of riches, honour, and pride to control us. Jesus has a different way.

My wife Sarah preaches on how God's boundaries are ways we are freed from our own destructive devices.

Mister Rogers did the work of Jesus, sharing God's love by reminding us that we are inherently loved just the way we are.

The popular notions of God are terrible and along with many atheists, I reject them, too.

Could the Incarnation be the central event of salvation?

What do you do when you're worried and can't sleep?