When God Seems Silent Because the soul is the deepest expression of the person, the soul is the place of greatest pain. We do not speak of the dark night of the mind, or the will, or even the spirit. only the soul. The dark night of the soul. The phrase comes from a brilliant…
The Soul: This Tiny, Fragile, Vulnerable, Precious Thing about You
We each have an outer life and an inner one. My outer self is the public, visible me. My accomplishments, my work, and my reputation lie there. My outer world had changed a great deal since I had last seen Dallas Willard. I was working at a church that — in the little world of…
Your Soul Needs a Future
God planted eternity in our hearts so that we would not stop seeking life beyond ourselves. Jesus tried to speak of this to His disciples not long before He died: “In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.” Their confusion is so great they pester…
Your Soul Needs a Center
A soul without a center is like a house built over a sinkhole. “How collapsed you are my soul, and how you sigh over me.” On the other hand, the soul comes alive when it is centered on God. “Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love… for to You I lift up my soul.”…
John Ortberg Soul Keeping Author Chat Replay
There are a few books in my library, gathered over 50 years, that I would describe as soul-enriching. Pastors I know also treasure them. They’re modern classics: Loving God by J.I. Packer, The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard, A Celebration of Disciplines by Richard Foster, and several others. This book has lovingly been placed into that revered…
Soul Keeping: What Is The Soul?
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world,…