"We've grown into a society that relies on SAT scores, Nielsen ratings, flow charts and polls, ... at the expense of the attention once paid to the human capacity for awe, for wonder, for gratitude, for worship—that capacity out of which [we] find God."
The word adventure may be overused in an era always hungry for new experience. Yet there is a genuine adventure that brings not simply new experience but the newness of life in God's care.
About our cover— If people have been losing faith, it has been a loss of faith in a material view of God and man. But losing that faith is what often clears the way for a new, more spiritual faith—an understanding of the only living and true God, as the Bible puts it.
Human life seems to take much of its shape from our experiences. But there is a more fundamental force at work, the goodness of God, which can re-form and transform experience.
About our cover—When we begin to accept God as the Father and Mother of every spiritual individuality, we arrive at new estimates of our children's strength and dominion—and of our own.
20 Destroy those monsters Prayer that results in Christ-healing is not so much a request as it is an openness to power of God and to what He is showing us of our pure spirituality.