Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Guided Prayer

ExploreFaith has a nice little devotion area that has a daily MP3 audio clip to accompany a group of ideas and scriptures. (Too bad there isn't an RSS feed.)

You know in today's devotion it has a 'chant'. I don't really chant in my devotions. It associates me with my childhood in a Hindu ashram. I tend to think of it as mindless repetition. However, my wife has seen studies that show certain chants and groups of repeated sounds are healing for people with 'dain bramage and neurosis. I don't like the tendency in myself to be quick to judge another's expression of worship.

At what point did my faith lead me to judge another's?

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Credibility

The Reverend Billy Graham tells of a time early in his
career when he arrived in a small town to preach a sermon.
Wanting to mail a letter, he asked a young boy for
directions to the post office.

After being told the way by the lad, the Reverend Graham
thanked him, adding: "If you'll come to the Baptist church
this evening, you can hear me telling everyone how to get
to Heaven."

"I don't think I'll be there," the boy said. "You don't
even know your way to the post office."