Inappropriate Conversations

"I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." 

Ezekiel 36:25-28 (a new heart and a new spirit as a baptism of sorts)

#IC 189: Apocalyptic Visions (9/20/16)

#IC 21: Permanent Things I Believe (7/27/10)

Walk The Earth 7  (12/26/13)

"I wasn't voted most likely to succeed. Instead, it was most likely to be found on a mountaintop in Guadalajara writing the world's most profound three-word sentence." 

Mark 9:2-13 (when they looked around, they saw no one else with them anymore)

#IC 79: A Farewell Address from the Mountaintop (1/29/12) 

#IC 90: Moments of Epiphany (5/23/12)

#IC 80: Revelation Weekend (2/5/12)

"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." 

Luke 12:8-12 (the Spirit will tell you what to say)

#IC 21: Permanent Things I Believe (7/27/10)

#90 Moments of Epiphany (5/23/12)

Benjamin Franklin

"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in." 

Romans 5:1-11 (we were sinful when Christ stepped in)

#IC 201: The Sound of Sustainability (6/14/17) 

Leonard Cohen - The Future

"We do not need to be rescued from God. God is the one who rescues us from death, sin, and destruction. God is the rescuer." 

Luke 15:1-7 (this fellow Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them, they said)

#IC 131: Christianity 301 (10/22/13)

Rob Bell - Love Wins

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.” 

2 Corinthians 13:5 (test yourself to see if you are living in the faith)

#IC 44: Sacred Friendship (1/27/11)

#IC 227: Some Assembly Required, Chapter 5 (7/6/20)

C. G. Jung - Psychology and Alchemy

"Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and respect." 

1 Peter 3:13-17 (how to account for the hope that is in you)

#IC 136: Converse or Convert (1/1/14)

#IC 131: Christianity 301 (10/22/13)

“Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.” 

1 John 4:7-21 (everyone who loves is born of God and knows God)

#IC 120: Making Contact (5/15/13)

Leo Buscaglia - Love (special edition)

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

Mark 9:38-41 (we saw someone casting out demons in your name)

#IC 2: The Author and Different Drummer (3/14/10)

Henry David Thoreau - Walden

"Men cannot see their reflections in running water, but only in still water."

Psalm 46:10 (be still, and know that I am God)

#IC 44: Sacred Friendship (1/27/11)

Zhuang Zhou - Zhuangzi