The spiritual conflict of this world is not between the spirit and physical flesh. Instead, this world’s spiritual conflict is a life lived under God’s reign versus life lived in rebellion against God’s purposes for creation. -Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 34.Read More
Spirituality is a lived theology. . . . Christian convictions about God and God’s truth are not mere philosophical abstractions. Theology is actually meant to be lived wisdom. -Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 32.Read More
God has come to us in Jesus so that we may come to God through Jesus. That is Christian spirituality. And living in that union, that divine embrace, that is the spiritual life. -Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 23.Read More
Our January Worship Seminar, featuring Dr. Gordon T. Smith, will be held January 7-8, 2013, during the January on-campus intensive. This event is open to the public, but requires registration. Dr. Smith is the President of Ambrose College University and Seminary in Calgary, Alberta Canada, and the former Academic Vice President, Dean, and Associate Professor...Read More
I call for a spirituality that is not a mere search for a transcendent experience but a spirituality that is rooted in the unique story of God. I ask you not to subscribe to the relativism that all paths lead to God but to a countercultural affirmation that God, the Creator of the universe, has...Read More
Christian spirituality is the experience of God living in us and the challenge of our living in God. -Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 22.Read More
To participate in God’s story is to live a transformed life, a life that brings glimpses of the ultimate transformation of all creation. . . . Jesus, the incarnate Word, is the only man who “got it right.” In Jesus God shows us what humanity should look like, for he reversed the disobedience of the...Read More
When we . . . upon hearing the story desire to participate in God, we are no longer preoccupied with self, the welfare of self, the indulgence of self, and the preservation of self. Instead the focus is on God’s purposes for our life and the life of the world. . . . To worship...Read More
Current spirituality . . . is expressed more as “a journey into self” than “a journey into God.” Nevertheless, union with God does have to do with self, not as in the narcissistic self but as the challenge to be the new self—re-created to be all that God intends us to be in our restored...Read More
In this edition: President's Column, Jim Hart; Faculty Column, Lester Ruth; Student Focus, Jeff Vogan; Chris Hall Seminar Reflections, Faculty and Staff News, Alumni News, Congratulations 2012 Graduates, June Session Resources, January 2013 Seminar DatesRead More
