Though Jesus is our ultimate “rest,” and he releases us from the Old Testament legal obligation of the Sabbath, why on earth would we exhausted, sleep-deprived, caffeine and adrenalin-addicted people thumb our nose at the gift of a day of rest? It seems strange, doesn’t it? We all seem to yearn for vacation … We salivate […]
I am leading a retreat tomorrow for our A Way of Life class … And we are going to talk about the Sabbath a bit more. But we are also going to do more than just talk. We are going to start to imagine together what a perfect Sabbath day might look like – no […]
If you are aware of the origins of this blog, you know it flows out of a class called “A Way of Life.” This class is a part of the Vantage Point 3 curriculum our church uses as a discipleship/leadership training process. See my links section for the VP3 website! (It is under the "About […]
Today, a bit of wisdom from Henri Nouwen: “I keep expecting loud and impressive events to convince me and others of God’s saving power … Our temptation is to be distracted by them … When I have no eyes for the small signs of God’s presence – the smile of a baby, the carefree play of […]
I don’t know what you tend to do when you are scared, but I tend to freak out. I am not a “good” scared person, whatever that means. But I do have one thing I do that helps. I recite Psalm 23 aloud, from memory. I am not a huge “memorize passages of the Bible” […]
This is what I read today in Mark Labberton’s book, The Dangerous Act of Worship: “At a worship service I attended a couple of years ago, my attention was drawn to the enthusiastic worship leader. He opened our time with prayer, asking God to meet us … Then he turned to face forward, standing just […]
