Return To Our Senses: Re-Imagining How We Pray (Book Review)
Instead of offering a formulaic approach to a successful prayer life, Christine invites us to reengage our spiritual imaginations – to rediscover the love of GOD and the joy of unceasing conversation with Him…
Return To Our Senses: Reimagining How We Pray
Each moment is, I believe, pregnant with new possibilities, new concrete expressions of prayer waiting to be born. What are the creative ways that God might stir your imagination through this experience of closeness, into new expressions of prayer?…
Lament: Neil Postman and A Culture of Distraction
We must learn again to weep before GOD…to stop looking to call down fire on a nation that is wandering in darkness. We can never forget that Judas was a Zealot and Peter did not build the early church until he was broken by his own pride before the loving face of Jesus. The only way forward is a journey of lament…
The Prayer Movement and the Renewal of All Things
Today the decentralized prayer movement, with it’s many points of origin, is a global phenomena. Houses of prayer with a vision for laus perennis or continual prayer have sprung up all over the world…
Jenny & Tyler: Faint Not (Video)
Out of this struggle to continually choose sacrificial love we are reminded that it is not idealism or politically-inspired activism but humble submission to the Holy Spirit through whom we can say, like the ancient Hebrew psalmist-king David, “o my soul, faint not, no faint not | o my soul, keep up, up in love”…
Pilgrimage and Thin Places: Seeking Intimacy With GOD
Within days of my salvation, I longed to spend time in nature, seeking GOD and seeing Him reflected through His creation. There were times when a major decision was required in my life, and the mountains and beaches were where I sought GOD’s response…
Litany For Japan and the Work of Prayer
Despite feeling overwhelmed though -the work of prayer is still the task at hand…Let us offer up cries for mercy to GOD together as families and church communities in our localities and particular places -for a world in need of redemption. Today I focus on Japan because it is most on my heart…
Searching For A New Normal
We made the difficult decision of temporarily moving off of the farm we live on to seek needed support…We plan on going back sometime after Elias’ surgery but as the weather turns warm and Winter gives way to Spring we won’t be doing our typical large garden plot…
Sustainable Traditions 2010 Christmas Greeting
To the humble a door opens. We stoop to enter in, we leave our selves at the threshold, we clothe ourselves in Him. In weakness He overturns the strong, in foolishness He shames the wise. Be born anew in the barnyard of our lives…
No Ordinary Child
This Christmas I am deeply considering how our story- and more specifically the story of my newborn son- is intertwined with GOD’s story- the GOD who was incarnated in the frail frame of a baby- much like my son…
