by Guy Sayles | Feb 11, 2010 |
Here’s a recent attempt I made to offer a brief description of who Jesus is to me. Maybe you will find it helpful: Jesus is God’s voice of love. In his book, The Soul of Christianity, Huston Smith, respected interpreter of the world’s great religions and a...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 4, 2010 |
Wendell Berry says that there are things about being a farmer which can only be known by farming: living on the land over time, tending to it in season and out of season, watching how the wind sweeps across it, observing how water flows over it, seeing the tracks of...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 1, 2010 |
In yesterday’s sermon, I pondered aloud those lyrical lines about love which the Apostle Paul wrote to the troubled church in Corinth. He described (not defined) what love is like:Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 23, 2010 |
At the heart of the Christian faith, there is this irreducible and astonishing claim: roughly 2000 years ago, God came to live among us in the flesh and blood, mind and heart, limits and potentialities of one human being: Jesus of Nazareth. In this one brief life, the...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 18, 2010 |
This past weekend, I was honored to offer the invocation at our community’s prayer breakfast in celebration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To have been asked was a surprise of grace. I grew up in Atlanta, Dr. King’s hometown, during the most intense days...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 11, 2010 |
Prayer is, quite simply and profoundly, being with God. It is speaking and listening in order to know and be known; it is hearing and being heard, as ways of holding and being held. Prayer is more than asking and receiving; it is, as Roberta Bondi has said, “the...
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