Trust in the Slow Work of God: A Gentle Beginning to the New Year
So, before we burst into this new year armed with our color coded goal charts and shouldering the weight of a personal-reno project, let’s be gentle with ourselves.
Awkward Adventures in Trust
I almost stayed back at the campground tucked in a sleeping bag, with a headlamp tight across my forehead, book opened.
How to Rest in God this Advent
Join me for a 16 day Advent journey with devotionals and Handel’s Messiah.
When Jesus walks through Walls: A Prayer Practice
What follows is a prayer practice of Ignatian Imaginative Contemplation, the goal of which is encountering the mystery of Jesus by walking into a story of the gospel with our senses fully awake. It’s visual prayer and an invitation to Presence, encountering the living Christ.
Lecio Divina: Transformation through Fixing our Eyes on Jesus
Here in the Presence Project we’re in a series on lectio divina which again means, divine reading, or even more simply, reading slowly WITH God. In the last episode we talked about our tendency to stay in task mode when reading the scripture and what happens in our connection with scripture when we’re in relationship mode. It changes everything.
Amen
When I wrote and preached this sermon, we were in Epiphany. Now we’re solidly in Lent and I wonder what kind of practice you may want to bring into this next 40 days. What might God be inviting you to fast from or what might He be inviting you to build into your schedule?
Here are a few ideas for Lent
1. Wrestle with the word in community. Do Bible study or do lectio divina together with one friend or with a small group.
