Posts with the tag “faith-in-daily-life”

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 4 -  The purpose of rest is to simply appreciate the blessings and gifts that God has plac...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 3 - Our musical offering this week (once again from Matthew Nickoloff) is a peaceful song ...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 2 - We are commanded by God to rest at least once every 7 days.  Just as God created the w...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 1 -  Rest can often feel like a foreign concept in our fast-paced world, but rest is in fa...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 5 - We pray that you might discover all the ways that God is still speaking in our world a...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 4 - Prayer is simply a conversation with God and so therefore includes both speaking and l...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 3 -  The St Ignatius Examen is an ancient Christian practice that invites individuals to l...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 2 -  In Matthew 4, Jesus quotes a passage from Deuteronomy that states that our lives are ...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 1 -  This week we invite you to Listen to God.  Often times our life of faith can become a...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 5 -  The scriptures continually point out that Jesus rose from the dead in a physical body...  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Day 4 - Connecting our spirituality to our body provides wisdom that informs our understanding...  Read More

Body Scan audio meditation  Read More

The opening to the Gospel of John states that God became human and experienced life in the same way that we do  Read More

This week we invite you to link a time of prayer with a physical movement or posture.   Read More

Ruach Elohim, the very source of being. With Your Breath you have given us life, may Your Spirit transform us, grant us reason, will, and consciousness to be conduits of this New Life you have bestowed upon us. Amen.  Read More

"Breathing with God is not as instinctive or automatic. Breathing with God, means living in communion and community with the Triune God and acting in partnership with God for the redemption of the world." - D. S. Dent  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Breath Day 3 -  The Hebrew word for God “Yahweh” is said to resemble the sound of Human breath...  Read More

"In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while the Spirit (ruah) of God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light." - Genesis 1:1-3  Read More

"Some of my most endearing prayers have been like breathing in and breathing out...breathing in knowledge of God as I'm reading Scripture and breathing out praise." - Martin Luther  Read More

O God, the calmer of the storm. Grant us the stillness of your peace. Calm our hearts and our minds as the world whirls around us. Allow us to know the stillness that comes from abiding in you, our Creator and Sustainer, Amen.  Read More

"Prayer is sitting in silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we ourselves are an act of praise." - Richard Rohr  Read More

This post is part of a series exploring Christian spiritual practices. Each week we are focusing on one practice that helps us live out our faith in real, daily ways. These short reflections are meant to give simple, practical steps for drawing closer to God and experiencing His presence in ordinary life.Silence Day 3 - The above song is based on Psalm 46:10 and provides a beautiful, meditative ex...  Read More

"Be still, and know that I am God I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth." - Psalm 46;10  Read More

"Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation." - Father Thomas Keating  Read More

Faith is NOT just an intellectual pursuit but rather a new way of being in the world.  Read More

By carving out time to simply be with Jesus our Teacher, we can hear his voice and understand the events of our life more clearly.   Read More

In baptism we are marked as Children of God; we are connected to the ongoing story of the Christian Church; we are forever labeled as the beloved of God. There are so many other voices in our world and in our life that try to tell us different stories.  Read More

In our world of societal pressure, it can be easy to forget what God has already said about us. We waste so much time in our lives trying on different identities and personalities and trends and so often are left feeling empty inside as a result.   Read More

I encourage to you put some plan in place. It might be something very simple. It may lead you into a new place, and new understanding of your relationship with God.   Read More

Consider the beauty of the world around us. How each organism is made of cells, how each cell is made of elements and each element; atoms. And how they work as a system to make the world we see around us.   Read More

I pray that today, we can all embody the spirit of Julian and understand both the simplicity and complexity of our faith.  Read More

While this the long months of Pentecost may not always seem exciting, the truth is that when we intentional spend these long stretches with God it inherently brings growth.  Read More