Author Archives: Jim Wicks

When the church starts to be the church it will constantly be adventuring out into places where there are no tried and tested ways. If the church in our day has few prophetic voices to sound above the noises of … Continue reading →

“Pain cannot touch the highest joy; and that is why joy laughs at pain and rejoices in confounding pain. It is the conquest of suffering by disinterestedness, by unselfishness, by perfect love.” … Continue reading →

Whether we like it or not…membership in the church is a basic spiritual fact for those who confess Christ as Lord. It is not an option for those Christians who happen, by nature, to be more gregarious than others. It … Continue reading →

It’s a very difficult thing to actually become the outcast, the needy one. The faithless one. The sinner. To come to the awareness that I’m not just to get close to the need of that person, and perhaps be contaminated … Continue reading →

Love is a divine thing. If it enters a human heart it breaks it. The human heart was created in order to be broken in this way. It is the saddest waste if it is broken by anything else. But … Continue reading →

The movement between community and solitariness is woven into the fabric of who we are in Christ. We come individually and make our response to the Word, who invites us to become a new creation and to live in divine … Continue reading →