Dig  Uncovering the Idols that Control Our Choices  AFTERWORD “The hindrance in our spiritual life is that we will not be continually converted, there are ‘wadges’ of obstinacy where our pride spits at the throne of God and says, ‘I won’t!’.  We deify independence and willfulness and call them by the wrong name.  What God… Read More »Dig. Afterword.

Dig  Uncovering the Idols that Control Our Choices  Chapter 9. The Dirty, Unrelenting Doing of the Thing RIGHT NOW “What we call the process, God calls the end.  What is my dream of God’s purpose?  His purpose is that I depend on Him and on His power now.  If I can stay in the middle… Read More »Dig. Chapter 9. The Dirty, Unrelenting Doing of the Thing

Dig  Uncovering the Idols that Control Our Choices  Chapter 8. Droughts and Obsessions “We have been too blind to see, or too timid to speak out, or too self-satisfied to desire anything better than the poor average diet with which others appear satisfied.  To put it differently, we have accepted one another’s notions, copied one… Read More »Dig. Chapter 8. Droughts and Obsessions

Dig  Uncovering the Idols that Control Our Choices  Chapter 7. The Idol of Food “The test of spiritual concentration is bringing the imagination into captivity.  Is your imagination looking on the face of an idol?  Is the idol yourself?  Your work?  Your conception of what a worker should be?  Your experience of salvation and sanctification? … Read More »Dig. Chapter 7. The Idol of Food