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…
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…
John Ortberg Author Chat Replay Video
You have a soul. When we sat down with Pastor John Ortberg, author of Soul Keeping, we talked about our souls and that caring for them is the most important thing we can do! John Ortberg is the senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. He shares with us lessons he learned from his mentor,…
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,…