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Continue reading →: ★ The Advent of Advent
This weekend is the beginning of Advent. Advent is the season in the Christian calendar in which we are invited to prepare ourselves for the Christmas story. Advent is about patient, joyful expectation of the arrival of Christ in our midst, and it is meant to be a time of…
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Continue reading →: ★ A Celtic Thanksgiving
To all my US American friends and family, I wish you Happy Thanksgiving today! In recent months, I have been eager to learn from the wisdom of Christians who lived their lives before us, and to see if their traditions provide words of prayer that I could try on as…
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Continue reading →: ★ Book Review: Chasing Francis
Is there a way to digest the pre-packaged, one-size-fits-all easy answers Churchianity that happens in so much of our culture? Is there a way past the Sunday show that allows us to wrestle with the deep complexities of Christian faith and allows space for questions and doubt? Is there a…
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Continue reading →: ★ How to Plant a Church
I found this video a day or two ago, reposted it to some friends on Facebook, got a few guys in trouble with their own Facebook friends who apparently don’t think this is funny, and forgot that I should also post it here. Friday funny, y’all!
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Continue reading →: ★ The Journey of Spiritual Transformation
So, what are we doing in this Christian life? Why bother, and what are we aiming for? The essence of Christian spirituality is following Christ on a journey of personal transformation. The distant land to which we are called is not heaven. Nor is it some external, physical place. The…
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Continue reading →: ★ Possibility
I share with Soren Kierkegaard the sense that “my soul has lost possibility. If I were to wish for something,” he writes in Either/Or, “I would wish not for wealth or power but for the passion of possibility, for the eye, eternally young, eternally ardent, that sees possibility everywhere.” “Acedia…
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You Need to Read "Introverts in the Church"
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Continue reading →: You Need to Read "Introverts in the Church"This is a review, book summary and strong recommendation for a book that I finished a month or so ago, but have been processing through since then. I strongly recommend that you read: “Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture” (Adam S. McHugh) Adam McHugh describes…
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Continue reading →: ★ Job Requirements
To be good instruments of God’s love we must avoid being over-tired, burnt-out, stressed, aggressive, fragmented or closed up. We need to be rested, centered, peaceful, aware of the needs of our body, our heart and our spirit. Jesus says that there is no greater love than to give our…
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Continue reading →: ★ Psalms: Journey Songs of an Angry People
If we are going to see life as a succession of thresholds to be crossed, we are reminded of the journeys of the people of Israel in the desert, and we then find symbols and images that we can apply to our own experience… The psalms are the journey songs…
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Continue reading →: ★ Pastors, Entertainment, Busyness and Silence
Another gem from “The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry” (Henri J. M. Nouwen) : I would like to stress the importance of silence in the ways a minister organizes his own life and that of others. In a society in which entertainment and distraction are such…
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