The first in a series of posts exploring David Fitch's new book entitled The End of Evangelicalism?
Why are routines important? Routines form habits that become part of the behavior of a person. It becomes part of who they are. When a person orders his or her day around an encounter with God through prayer and the reading of scripture, the...
My own issues with ADD have helped me realize that to battle this distracted tendency and to manage the distracted-ness of what is coming we are going to have to think about spiritual formation in a much different way. My own journey has convinced...
Walk. It is a way that the Old Testament described living. To walk in darkness was to live in darkness. To walk in the Spirit is to live in such a way that the Spirit controls. Christians don’t talk much about death; we want to enjoy life, to...
Within culture, people are devoting less and less time to community events, relationships and church gatherings.‚ Ministers in many settings have only the Sunday morning gathering to create an environment for the timeless truth of God to be made...
It was a Thursday night during my latter college years. I went with three guys whom I had discipled earlier in my college years to restaurant called Shoneys. Three of us were committed to ministry full-time. In fact, at the time we were either...
The Dark Night of the Soul
Images set to Loreena McKennitt‘s music and vocals “The Dark Night of the Soul“, inspired by the Words of St. John of the Cross.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHbiXCaEOuI
They tell us that unemployment at nine or ten percent is going to be the new norm for a while. High deficits, inflation, a declining dollar, higher gas prices. All of these economic realities may become the new normal. I hurt my back this summer and...