This morning I asked a young lady riding with me to church to write something down. She didn’t want to because she said her handwriting was so poor. She talked about her grandmother’s beautiful handwriting and the fact that her grandmother even knew shorthand, which...
“Mysticism (from the Greek μυστικός (mystikos) “an initiate” , μυστήρια (mysteria) meaning “initiation” is the pursuit of achieving communion identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God...
I was reading recently from How People Change by Timothy Lane and David Tripp. In it they describe some of the manifestations of “Christian externalism”, their description of the things people do to try to fill the “gospel gap” that subverts...
In Monday night’s Disciple I class the subject was ‘wonder’ and the topic of mysticism came up. I was pressed on the issue and confessed to being ‘mystic’. Today both of my online devotionals address the issue. I sent out a note to all...
