Pete Gall is a Christian author, speaker and brand consultant who specializes in giving God back to people. More →
That’s my new favorite prayer. I’ve been using it a lot lately. I see the temptation coming and I start laughing and pray, “Oh, Jesus, I’m gonna get creamed!” And that invites Him in. And it’s working. So here’s how I learned it. About a week ago I met my friend, Pastor E, for coffee. [...]
Aaron Tolson read My Beautiful Idol and created this video a while back. A very flattering experience for me – and humbling. Another friend God introduced me to through my books is writing his Masters thesis on community, faith and the race. Is the race of faith and life a sprint, a marathon, a relay, [...]
“The rest of the church is just so lame by comparison.” I hear it with nearly every church, ministry, non-profit or recovery client or friend. Some aspect of life, or some gathering, some ministry, some men’s group, some cause – some thing has grabbed the attention of a portion of the Body and become so [...]
From Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer (page 23-25 in my version): Nothing is more foreign to authentic monastic and “contemplative” tradition in the Church than a kind of gnosticism which would elevate the contemplative above the ordinary Christian by initiating him into a realm of esoteric knowledge and experience, delivering him from the ordinary struggles and [...]
