Christian Living
Recently, I read how human resilience can be compared to salt. Resilience is the “ability to face reality: to deal with and to grow through life’s challenges.” Like salt, which flavors and preserves the quality of food and helps disinfect harmful materials, resiliency in people enhances, protects and detoxifies their quality of life.
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I found this on the Missional Church Network blog I thought worth posting after my brief thoughts on spiritual friendship. This is by Georges Boujakly.
“A couple of years ago I attended a week-long retreat called a 5-Day Spiritual Academy. This particular retreat was a ministry of Upper Room Ministries and was held in Wichita at [...]
A congregational conversation already in progress… One Sunday morning… After this pastor had resigned…
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By now you know my thoughts on the importance of identifying our “red dot”. It helps us know [...]
My week has been full of appointments at a local hotel where over 600 ‘M’s’ converged for their annual conference. As chaplain/mentor/spiritual director of a few of their teams around the region, I was making good on the fact that they were all in one location.
At any rate, still operating on the schedule I [...]
In House Church this evening we did a comparative study between Jeremiah 15 and Jeremiah 20. In chapter 15, Jeremiah rightly complains that his life had gotten complicated due to the message God had given him. He even points out that he is not like those who don’t honor God but actually did everyting he [...]
I’m experimenting with our pod casting capabilities on this site. The reason I chose this particular “message” is that it stands alone and it speaks to me of late as I struggle with what God is up to in my life right now.
My denominational background only acknowledges two sacraments of the church: Baptism & the Lord’s table. When I mentioned discovering the “sacramental aspects of family life” in my previous post it occurred to me that some may not understand my meaning.
My understanding of a sacramental life is one that sees the relational dynamics of life with [...]
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