This weekend the famous author and "Catholic Priest turned evangelist", Brennan Manning, will lead a conference for our Singles ministry at the CUBE. Anyone is welcome to come. It is a unique opportunity to spend some quality time with a very unique follower of Christ. Over the next few days, I will pull out selections from his various books for our devotions.
At Home with Christ
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. 16Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Hebrews 4:15)
Home is that sacred place - external or internal - where we don’t have to be afraid; where we are confident of hospitality and love. In our society we have many homeless people sleeping not only on the streets, in shelters or in welfare hotels, but vagabonds who are in flight, who never come home to themselves. They seek a safe place through alcohol or drugs, or security in success, competence, friends, pleasure, notoriety, knowledge, or even a little religion. They have become strangers to themselves, people who have an address but are never home, who never hear the voice of love or experience the freedom of God’s children.
To those of us in flight, who are afraid to turn around lest we run into ourselves, Jesus says; “You have a home … I am your home … claim me as your home … you will find it to be the intimate place where I have found my home … it is right where you are … in your innermost being … in your heart.”
Brennan Manning
Ragamuffin Gospel
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