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Dustin Boreland
http://Springvale.org
“Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into your mind; he is after nothing less than your wants, your loves, your longings.”
― You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
― You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
“A maturing community is a confessing community - not a church without sin, but a church without secrets.”
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
“continuing the same things that are not bringing renewal is not going to bring renewal. Lack of commitment is not going to bring renewal. Business as usual will not bring renewal. Accumulating knowledge without putting it into practice will not bring renewal. We need our autopilot patterns interrupted.”
― Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture
― Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture
“Prayer can’t be mastered. Prayer always means submission. To pray is to willingly put ourselves in the unguarded, exposed position. There is no climb. There is no control. There is no mastery. There is only humility and hope. To pray is to risk being naive, to risk believing, to risk playing the fool. To pray is to risk trusting someone who might let”
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
“Prayer means the risk of facing silence where we’re addicted to noise. It’s the risk of facing a God we’ve mastered talking about, singing about, reading about, and learning about. It means risking real interaction with that God, and the longer we’ve gotten used to settling for the noise around God, the higher the stakes. What if it’s awkward or disappointing or boring, or what if God stands me up altogether?”
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
Dustin’s 2025 Year in Books
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