I hate being told what I “want” by someone else. So why does St. Ignatius of Loyola keep telling us to “ask for what I want”?
Tag: Spiritual Formation
Supplement, not Substitute Unpopular (probably) statement… Spiritual Direction is NOT a substitute for spiritual community (what’s often called church). It is only a supplement to church. I know that spiritual direction is richly relationally, and quite spiritual (except when it’s just psychological listening to the self, rather than spiritual listening to God). NOT AN INDIVIDUAL […]
Pray. Read your Bible. Go to church—twice on Sundays. And don’t sin. Be sure not to sin. These were my devotions (as they were called). I was raised independent Bible Church baptist. So we didn’t do that “spiritual discipline” crap. Only the Catholics did that stuff while trying to “earn their salvation”—so I was told. But […]
Peter, like many of us, had right information understood the wrong way. I’m not talking about head vs. heart knowledge. I’m talk about having our mind set on human ways instead of God’s ways. Lent is the time to transform what we think to be right knowledge into the right way of living (because we […]