A good reminder in what’s truly important as I seek to overflow with God’s love: Between Two Worlds: Desire 101: Putting First Things First. Trevin Wax reproduces a number of quotes from the book, Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis, which contains the spiritually significant portions from the three big volumes of Lewis’s letters. Here’s a quote from Lewis I hadn’t heard before: “(Sensual love) ceases to be a devil when it ceases to be a god. So many things–nay

Nelson Searcy takes a page from his friend John Donahue in discussing why people stay in church.  Good stuff! Nelson Searcy over at Church Leader Insights focuses on 2 factors that influence people staying at a church. He says that it’s based on people’s RELATIONSHIP and their RESPONSIBILITY. If a person has those 2 needs met, they will stay in a church. Not trying to completely disagree with Nelson, I think that there is one other factor – RIGHTEOUSNESS. There MUST be a GOD