MacDonald

Relationship God created human relationships after His own Thoughts and Life. Relationship, therefore, is the best teacher of love and devotion. Love expressed to God and our neighbor. The context of relationship is an infinitely higher and more reliable means of achieving our education in “Life.” Relationship is the best environment to learn and grow […]

Having read “The Way,” we have to know that MacDonald will double down here with the addition of the word “Hardness” in the title! If we realized we were too hard on the rich young man before then what are we going to do when it is about us and our time and priorities? So,

In many ways, grace is a lot more of a taskmaster than law. As hard as math and mouth (confession) may be, heart and hands up the ante in The Way considerably. The coming storm for each of us is that everyone is eligible for unconditional love and grace regardless of my bends, leanings, tastes,

The Inheritance is the final sermon of the “Unspoken Sermons” series and a true reflection and summary of MacDonald’s thoughts. Abba, our Heavenly Father, is the beginning and end and everything in between. If we have not found the first light of heaven in our relationship with our Father, Brother, and Teacher, heaven will be

yhwh Some years ago, my wife Wendy and I went to a weekend conference featuring Rabbi Kushner. During the weekend, he did a session on Exodus 3:14-15 where he discussed the history of this name. “Then God said to Moses, “I Am Who I Am” [These Hebrew words are related to the name Yahweh, usually translated

Love Yourself “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” Matthew 12:39 GNT “My love for others is neither less nor greater than my love for myself. My love for others is equal to my love for myself. There is no difference.” The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself – Jerry and Denise Basel, J & D Publications,

Other? Our neighbor is anyone “other” than us! This otherness is where the “rubber meets the road,” as they say, or where “the proof is in the pudding.” There is little value in what I know about God if it bears no love for another. Not just love for one that already loves me, but

Finished! Jesus’ living was as crucial as His dying- from Your hands Father, back to Your hands! The almost total emphasis placed on the cross in our view of Christianity has lacked a sense of balance. It makes it seem that dealing with sin is at the center of everything. You could conclude that sin

Trinity as One For our reflection on “The Eloi,” I want to jump ahead in the Sermons to “Life,” number twenty in series two. But first, I want to provide a little context about the timeline of the Unspoken Sermons. MacDonald was nearing fifty when he published series one. Series two was released some dozen

No Adults Allowed! So, all of creation becomes the children’s playhouse and Jesus posts a sign above the door, “No Adults Allowed!” Jesus told them they could not even enter His kingdom thinking this way. They would have to become childlike by humbling themselves. (The Child in the Mist) We began in “Child in the