The Journey Archives - Michael Rose

Missing God in both Success and Failure

Posted on August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 by Michael Rose

Why is it that when I sense a leading from God and follow through, the results so profoundly determines my hindsight? If things fit together with ease and all goes well I am confident that I have indeed heard God. Alternately, if things blow up in my face, I am suddenly stricken with a rash…

Being More or Doing More?

Posted on November 13, 2011June 25, 2015 by Michael Rose

The wrestle with the dichotomy of being and doing comes from the emptiness that often accompanies doing religious things out of religious obligation. The idea that we have to do things for God for love, acceptance, duty, forgiveness. For many Christians this thinking sets us up for spiritual burnout. Many pastors burn out because they…