by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Lifestyle, Trinity, Holy Spirit, Spiritual Disciplines
This weekend my wife and I went out to dinner with a couple from our church. The wife noted that our last two worship gatherings felt more like a Friends Meeting than a Baptist worship service. Some in her family were Friends (Quakers) and she had been to several...
by David Phillips | May 20, 2011 | Spiritual Disciplines, Liturgy, Formation
I have struggled off and on in my prayer life. There are days when I really enjoy praying and others when I’m not really in the mood to sit and participate in a typical prayer experience. Of course defining that typical prayer experience can be a difficult job...
by David Phillips | May 12, 2011 | Word, Formation, Spiritual Disciplines
In thinking about monastic practices that help form us in a contemporary culture, I want to turn to the idea of lectio divina. Lectio Divina is Latin for divine reading, spiritual reading, or “holy reading,” and represents a traditional Catholic practice...
by David Phillips | Apr 27, 2011 | Spiritual Disciplines
I missed blogging on meditation last tuesday as part of “Blogging the Spiritual Disciplines”. I had some good things going. But here are a few quotes I wanted to pass on to you about meditation: Meditation, according to Whitney involves, “filling...
by David Phillips | Apr 11, 2011 | Change Theology, Formation, Missional, Spiritual Disciplines
Recently I was invited to participate in a Silent Retreat. After supper on Thursday evening until lunch on Friday, we were engaged in silence, with the hope that by being silent we could hear the still small voice of God. Most of those who participated chose to...
by David Phillips | Apr 8, 2011 | Feature Articles, Spiritual Disciplines, Change Theology, Formation
Recently I was invited to participate in a silent retreat. After supper on Thursday evening until lunch on Friday, we were engaged in silence, with the hope that by being silent we could hear the still small voice of God. Creating a silent environment was the easy...
