This week’s featured book: For the Common Good by Christine Harman   Today’s Reflection We may feel a struggle for clarity and direction, and we question whether God is withholding discernment from us. Those times may offer a unique opportunity if we view them as times of preparation and equipping. —Christine Harman, For the Common […]

This week’s featured book: For the Common Good by Christine Harman   Today’s Reflection God has already placed within each community of faith all the grace gifts, skills, passions, and experience necessary for that community to fulfill God’s call to mission and ministry in and with its unique mission field. —Christine Harman, For the Common

This week’s featured book: For the Common Good by Christine Harman   Today’s Reflection The phrase “spiritual gifts” is unique to Paul’s writings, and the Greek word he uses is based in the word charis, which means “grace.” . . . so, it is helpful to think of them as “grace gifts.” —Christine Harman, For

This week’s featured book: Praying with Jonah by Sharon Seyfarth Garner   Today’s Reflection Embracing my call, giving what I can give, I will act and I’ll love, and most of all, live. Fear not, today’s Jonahs, God is with you right now. Comtempl-active living is the call and the how. —Sharon Seyfarth Garner, Praying

This week’s featured book: Praying with Jonah by Sharon Seyfarth Garner   Today’s Reflection Even when Jonah rages against God’s decision to spare the Ninevites, God doesn’t lecture, smite, or walk away. God stays in relationship with Jonah by asking questions. Questions can keep us connected even when we are confused. —Sharon Seyfarth Garner, Praying

This week’s featured book: Praying with Jonah by Sharon Seyfarth Garner   Today’s Reflection It’s okay to move slowly and advance prayerfully. . . . The call to “get up and go” is not a call to “get up and sprint.” It is a call to action, not a race to action. There is a

This week’s featured book: Praying with Jonah by Sharon Seyfarth Garner   Today’s Reflection May you be delivered safely onto new shores. May you trust that God is with you always; Even in the blessed mess of the belly of the whale and beyond. —Sharon Seyfarth Garner, Praying with Jonah: Practices for Imperfect Pilgrims (Upper

This week’s featured book: Praying with Jonah by Sharon Seyfarth Garner   Today’s Reflection The belly of the whale is sacred space where God is present with us right in the midst of the mess, where we can find a sense of stillness and trust that God will deliver us. —Sharon Seyfarth Garner, Praying with

This week’s featured book: Praying with Jonah by Sharon Seyfarth Garner   Today’s Reflection May you be blessed with eyes to see God’s Presence with you both in your running and in your returning. May you be blessed with ears to hear the voice of the captain waking you from denial and doubt. —Sharon Seyfarth