Follow Your Breath: Thomas Merton’s Guide to Prayer
Toms message was simple: each and every one of us is invited to encounter a God who loves, chooses, and visits us through practices like Thomas Merton breathing prayer.
Discipleship and Spiritual Growth
An Ordinary Life of Worship
The routes we walkrhythms of embodied presence and prayerful listening to the small world outside our front door help me to notice the small, and not-so-small, shifts in our season of life, integrating into an ordinary life of worship.
Tamara Hill Murphy
When we seek God, we discover that—through the invitations of Jesus—God’s love sought and found us first.
Ordinary Discipleship for the Rest of Us
We have to train ordinary people in the relational skills to be Spirit-led in helping others be changed by Jesus through ordinary discipleship.
Radical Theology
I have seen and heard firsthand that thousands have trouble seeing God as a loving Father because of deep wounds from their earthly father. Maybe that’s true for you as well.
The Reading the Labels Technique
The Reading the Labels Technique is an easy way to freshen up our Bible reading. While reading, identify and track the labels that an author uses for characters in the story. Once a character is introduced, many Bible readers create a picture in their mind of who that character is and default to that initial picture without looking at the nuanced ways that the author is presenting that character.
20th Annual Outreach Resources of the Year: Spiritual Growth
The panelists thoughtfully evaluated each submission and chose one or more as an Outreach Resource of the Year, then highlighted other titles as “Also Recommended.” Here are the winners in the Spiritual Growth category.
A Greater Understanding Of Conscious Being Existence
It is not just your future that is at stake. It is also the meaning and value of your life, especially concerning conscious being existence. Does your life have purpose? What is a life? What is purpose? If the path of your life reduces to the paths of point particles, can you have any assurance that your future is bright?
Obstacles to Seeing God as He Is
I believe the single most effective weapon against our joy in Christ and becoming who we are made to be is the lie that God is not who He says He is and you cant trust Him. This article explores the obstacles to trusting God's goodness.
Unbound by Time: God’s Eternity Attribute
As time-bound creatures, we struggle all the more with the notion of God's eternity attribute. We cannot imagine any kind of experience or reality that is not defined by time. The very concept almost overwhelms our rational capacity.
