This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Reading for formation avoids quantifying the amount of reading in any sort of way. . . . So what if it takes you a year, two years, five years to get through the book? That is not the point.

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection You are a “word” of God! Every human being is a word that God speaks into existence. . . . [Paul] says that we are a word of God “spoken forth” even before the foundation of the world. —M.

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Every action taken, every response made, every dynamic of relationship, every thought held, every emotion allowed. . . . We are being shaped either toward the wholeness of the image of Christ or toward a horribly destructive caricature of

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Listen for God to speak to you in and through, around and within, over and behind and out front of everything that you read. Keep asking yourself, “What is God seeking to say to me in all of this?”

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection When God puts a “finger” on those things in our lives that are inconsistent with God’s will for our wholeness, it is not simply to point them out. . . .That finger has a hand attached that offers us

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection The need to read the Bible formationally is as great now as it was when Bob [Mulholland] first wrote this book. . . . Without the kind of reading that Bob commends, we run the risk of having what

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection Praise is communal! When we honor God for who God has been to us, it is also time to honor who God has been to our communities, to our families, to our organizations, and more. —Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes and Andrew

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection He’s got nothing left. But the powerful thing is he is still calling upon God. He doesn’t let the lack of response keep him from going to God in prayer. —Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes and Andrew Wilkes, Psalms for Black Lives:

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection Ancestors are connectors. They unfold a bridge toward us, connecting our faltering belief to a more ancient faith, granting access to a tradition wider than our own interests, and rooting us in identities stronger than the powers and principalities

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection Entrusting our thoughts and intentions to the Lord . . . is simultaneously a humbling and empowering practice. Humbling because we desire God’s acceptance of our speech. Empowering because the one from whom we seek approval is our Strength.