“Radical transformations take time and require an intentional, systematic process. This is a journey for all of us, an ongoing, replenishing process of identifying the lies, calling them what they are, and replacing them with the truth. . . . Mental assent is just the beginning; we change when the truth affects us emotionally and […]
“My false and private self is the one who wants to exist outside the reach of God’s will and God’s love — outside of reality and outside of life.”- Thomas Merton “You can tell when the false self takes over because you become easily offended. The false self . . . is offended (about every […]
“If I could have predicted how isolated and abandoned I would feel in the years to come, I would have ignored my conscience [to leave my church] and gone with the flow. Instead, I chose to lean into disruption; my conscience had finally overruled the status quo. Still, ask anyone who has tried it; it’s […]
“Part of resting in the reality that your true self is hidden with Christ in God is looking at the true self you keep hiding inside yourself.”- Jared C. Wilson “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. . […]