Posts by Michael Martin
Nuestras Dos Conversaciones
Durante algún tiempo, he tenido dos conversaciones muy diferentes con dos grupos muy diferentes dentro de mi familia cristiana. Uno es con cristianos afroamericanos y el otro con cristianos blancos, ambos en su mayoría evangélicos, aunque muchos de los afroamericanos no usan esa etiqueta. Comparo estas conversaciones con el asesoramiento matrimonial que proporciono en el…
Read MoreOur Two Conversations
For some time, I’ve had two conversations with two very different groups of my Christian family. One is with white Christians and the other with African-American Christians, both mostly evangelicals, although many of the African-Americans don’t use that label. Most often the conversations are in the larger church community rather than in the church I…
Read More¿Qué se forma en soledad y quietud?
Quietud. Tranquilidad. Soledad. A veces, cuando invito a la soledad a mi día, o se me impone, pienso en mis abuelas, Lucy Jones y Emma Martin. Ambas eran madres de 13 hijos. Lo creas o no, recuerdo una tranquilidad y una sensación de quietud sobre ambas. Me crié en Flint, Michigan, alrededor de esa…
Read MoreWhat Is Shaped In Solitude and Stillness?
Stillness. Quiet. Solitude. Sometimes when I invite solitude into my day, or it forces itself on me, I think about my grandmothers, Lucy Jones and Emma Martin. Both were mothers to 13 children. Believe it or not, I remember a quietness and a sense of stillness about both of them. I was raised in Flint,…
Read MoreWhy we’re stuck with people we don’t like… and what to do about it!
By Michael Martin The capacity to separate ourselves unto God and have an intimate, powerful, regulating, transforming relationship with Him, and not with those that he brings with Him is wrong. If you love Christ, and He loves the Church, that means the Church is part of the package. You may be saying, well, I…
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