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Five Spiritual Resources for When You Need Help
As leaders in our communities of faith, we need to make sure that our people know the resources available to them when they are in spiritual need.
What Then Should We Do?
Where does John the Baptist fit among Bing Crosby on the radio, children on a stage, and Charlie Brown memories?
Dry
Just as the concept of one single breath is not enough to sustain us, neither is a “one-and-done” idea adequate to establish spiritual rhythms.
Reflection Roundup: Relationships Birth Understanding
The resurrection Spirit pursues us as we continually cycle through relational renewal with the evidential environment of the created world: with the people, the creatures, the living organisms therein.
The Challenge and Opportunity of Discontinuous Change
During a time of re-imagination, these challenges can open new doors and help us see our communities in a new light.
Exiled: Four Principles to Embrace
Jeremiah says to settle in. Adapt, adjust, and find ways to make a meaningful life in a new environment.
Now and Forever
It has been 40 days today. There’s certainly biblical significance to the span of 40 days. It seems to be a significant time marker for earth dwellers.
Faithfully Distressed
How do we handle spiritual distress as ministers and faith communities? We start by assuring people that distress and crisis are normal.
We Are Not Alone
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. But not when it comes to God.
Into the Wild: An Advent Reflection
We tend to think about wilderness as a place, but a shack is a visible reminder that wilderness is a force, always pushing back against order and security.
Walking Away from God (1 Kings 17)
There was no food, no money, and no more time. She had enough supplies for one last meal with her son before she would to take their fate into her own hands.
The Fire of Suffering
Can there be love without suffering? Doesn’t love inevitably and always lead us to suffering?
When You're Standing in the Struggle
Even in the lives of the redeemed, one does not have to look far to find struggle and pain.
The Path to Church Renewal Leads through the Desert
As a weary and wounded church pastor, I'm warning that the journey toward missional renewal isn't easy.
Confessions from the Wilderness
I have been in an unexpected wilderness for the past four weeks, as my depression has stepped out of line for no apparent reason, and is upsetting my routine.
The Missing Christian Leader
Never before in history have so many of the earth’s most blessed people felt so opposite. This might lead us to ask that if the answers we all seek aren’t in the middle of all the action
The Loneliest Number
Ministry, whether it be as a profession or as the call that comes to each follower of Jesus, can be a lonely business. We don’t like being alone—or more specifically, we don’t like being singled out.
Master, the Tempest is Raging!
In my fear and despair, my anger and bitterness, I cry out at the top of my lungs and from the depths of my heart—begging, pleading for God to wake up and hear me.
All Alone: A Reflection on Jacob
He was left all alone. For centuries these haunting words have filled the space between human extremity and divine encounters.