My father’s side of the family is especially good at storytelling. I don’t know what it is about those LaGuardias, but their stories can captivate people for hours. It’s probably my Grandpa’s influence. I remember attending barbeques (“grilling out” in the South) as a child and listening to him for hours as he told storiesContinue reading “Make room for storytelling, memoirs of faith as a spiritual practice”
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Are you the thorny vine that chokes the life out of other Christians?
In the parable of the sower (Mark 4), Jesus explained how God spreads the seeds of the gospel lavishly upon the ground. Some seed fell upon the ground only to be plucked up by birds. Faith does not have time to last or take root. There is happiness in receiving the word, but lack ofContinue reading “Are you the thorny vine that chokes the life out of other Christians?”
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