Advent & Christmas-tide Devotionals

Advent Series: Love

Advent & Christmas-tide

Advent Series: Hope

Advent & Christmas-tide Liturgical Rhythms & Seasons

Advent: What are we to prepare for?

As I walked with the Lord one morning, I felt an excitement considering the coming Advent season.   God reminded me that while Advent is restful in one sense, it is also a season of preparation. I asked God what he meant by preparation, what am I meant to be preparing for? How am I to prepare for Christ? Out of those questions, an Advent devotional was born. God got real serious with me on…

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Discernment Reflections & Ponderings Spiritual Formation Waiting

Rest: Lessons from a Tree of Life

Living out of a Bust Cycle “We are a do-it-yourself culture…with a constant compulsion for workaholism, and seeing our activity being what proves we have value, meaning and purpose in the world […] We live in a culture that has reversed the biblical order of being and doing. They are related, but we have to get the order straight. Our doing flows out of our being. Our relationship with God, not our doing, is the…

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Lent & Eastertide Seasonal Devotions Spiritual Formation

Easter: One Great Party