Brennan Manning
Brennan Manning
Richard Francis Xavier Manning, known as Brennan Manning was an American author, laicized priest, and public speaker. He is best known for his bestselling book The Ragamuffin Gospel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 April 1934
CountryUnited States of America
jesus missing pharisees
We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.
gracious adulation charismatic
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God
jesus honor looks
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
praying study ragamuffin-gospel
The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.
people tragedy attention
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
drains contact offers
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
jesus faithful
Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.
display ragamuffin-gospel
Do the truth quietly without display.
jesus compassion forgiving
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
beautiful reality evil
To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.
song drawing people
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.
nothing-to-lose loses ragamuffin-gospel
The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
real opinion about-yourself
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
religious confused lying
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.