Devotions from Fil Anderson’s book, Breaking the Rules Has our religion given us rules, systems and formulas to live by?  Does it give us a god who is obligated to provide the things we want if we hold up our end of the bargain by believing and going the required things? Some of our habits…

Devotions based on book by Fil Anderson “Breaking the Rules” The author was worn out with religious strivings and rule keeping that left him with guilt when he failed. His religion was characterized by a code of requirements and activities that were deemed necessary to gain good standing with God. He felt like he was…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love  We all face choices daily if we will choose for God or for our own doubting self.  We know the right choice but our emotions and feelings may suggest we choose the self-rejecting way. The root choice is to trust at all times that God…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love As we find the treasure of God’s love we may not be ready to fully own it. Many attachments keep pulling us away. If we fully owned our treasure we would hide it in the field where we found it, and go sell everything to…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotion is about living our wounds through.  We have all be wounded in many way and it may seem like the more we open ourselves up, the more we discover how deep our wounds are.  But the fact that we are more aware of…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Henri talks about the fear of death and dying alone. He wanted to have the inner freedom to let go and trust that he would die well. He felt like the passage from time into eternity, from the transient beauty of this world to the…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotion is about giving our agenda to the Lord.  We can get very concerned with making the right choices about our work, about how to respond to the many needs of others, and about issues that want our attention etc. But we cannot allow…

8-12 Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotion is on knowing we are welcome. Henri acknowledges that his greatest fear is not being welcome in this life and also not being welcome in the life to follow after this. He had thoughts at times that it would have been better…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love The more clearly we see that our vocation is to witness to God’s love in this world, the more the attacks of the enemy will increase.  We may hear the enemy say we are worthless, unattractive, undesirable, unlovable, and have nothing to offer. The more…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Henri writes about the fear of death. That fear is connected with the fear that we are not loved. As we come to know that we are loved fully and unconditionally, we will also come to know that we don’t have to fear death.  Love…