“The rushing wind let the first believers know that ‘breathing in God’ was a key to life in the Spirit. This metaphor helps us understand and express our relationship with the Holy Spirit in the language of dependency. The Holy Spirit offers life; we inhale the Spirit as if our spiritual life depended on it.” (source)
“. I’ve slowly learned, and am still learning, that ‘abundant life’ is a relational term.” (source)
“The burning bush is a symbol to help us understand that the Holy Spirit works through our brokenness” (source)
“. We get to be weak and broken, and he gets to burn through us without destroying us.” (source)
“Then church politics pushed you away. You experienced a lack of consistency between the values celebrated on Sunday morning and the way the church truly operated during the Tuesday night board meeting. Love and servanthood are triumphed from the pulpit on Sunday, but the ‘greatest of these’ is a good old-fashioned power play any other day of the week.” (source)