In Our Maker's Image

One way that we can deepen our understanding of God is to practice particular spiritual disciplines that will make us more open and adept at responding well, when God reveals. Study is one such practice. Romans 12:2 calls us to open ourselves to God by renewing our minds. The Gospel of John tells us that [...]

revelation is understood as the gift of God’s own Self. In revelation we meet God. God reveals Himself more fully to us and we get to know him better. Our spiritual journeys, our eternal lives lived with each other and with God, are meant to open us to Truth, not in the legalistic sense of right and wrong or of dogmatic beliefs, but in the sense of prophetically responding to the sense of God’s direction in our individual lives.

In your history classes, you probably learned about life in medieval times. A typical structure of the time was that a lord, who was appointed by the King, would rule over a certain portion of land. He had laborers who worked certain portions of the land and others who lived on the land and operated [...]

God is the source and the director of creativity. It is through creation that God’s creativity unfolds. We serve as faithful instruments and participants in creation. We are chosen to participate in ways that allow us to serve as co-creators. I do not mean to imply that it is an equal partnership because we cannot do what God does, but we are instrumental, in all senses of the word, to the process. God is a collaborative creator, and we are part of the creative alliance.