This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert Today’s Reflection While our daily prayer practices cannot change the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, praying in the face of an apocalypse has a long history in our faith. [Times of upheaval] are often fertile ground for spiritual transformation. —Daniel […]
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This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert Today’s Reflection When we begin to turn over large amounts of our resources to someone else, we encounter our fears. . . . Tithing is a prayer practice because it forces us into relationship with God. We must ask God for what
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This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert Today’s Reflection Just as we are able to reach out to God with our hearts and minds, we are able to reach out to God with and through our bodies. For it is through our bodies that we see and experience beauty,
This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert Today’s Reflection Just as God sees visions of what is to be created and then creates, so too we are designed to see visions and create in accordance with the power and presence of God in our lives. —Daniel Wolpert, Creating a
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This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert Today’s Reflection We can know God by not knowing God. . . . If we let go of our own limited way of knowing, God can infuse a deeper knowing into our consciousness, and so we know God by not knowing. —Daniel
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This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert Today’s Reflection I could not cause God to speak when I wanted God to speak. I had to listen, and that meant not knowing what I would hear or when I would hear it. —Daniel Wolpert, Creating a Life with God: The
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This week’s featured book: For the Common Good by Christine Harman Today’s Reflection Where, then, does God’s call beckon us? First, it calls us to live in an ever-increasing love and knowledge of the triune God. Second, it calls us to discern the particular vision God has for us. —Christine Harman, For the Common
This week’s featured book: For the Common Good by Christine Harman Today’s Reflection Within our communities of faith the culture of our discipleship is formed. . . . Most people typically do not live in a commune; but when there is need in the community, so often, they respond as though they are one.
This week’s featured book: For the Common Good by Christine Harman Today’s Reflection Some people have gifts that are frequently used “behind the scenes,” so they may not consider these gifts to be significant; yet, without them, various efforts fail for lack of precisely this kind of support. —Christine Harman, For the Common Good:
This week’s featured book: For the Common Good by Christine Harman Today’s Reflection Studying spiritual gifts, learning to work with them, and letting them work for the church can open up and expand fruitful ministry, whether a new ministry or a ministry that has had a long tenure in the local church. —Christine Harman,
