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Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
One of the greatest mistakes we can make in this life is to assume that God’s presence and call is limited to certain “holy” times and places. We’re inclined to think that God-moments only happen in church, or during particularly religious experiences, or when we are especially deserving of them. We tend to look for God in the extraordinary, when more often, God shows up most powerfully in the unexpected and ordinary moments of our lives.
Moses had one of those moments. While tending Jethro’s sheep in the wilderness, a bush caught fire but was not consumed—an extraordinary event in the most ordinary of places. Moses took notice, paused, beheld the beauty and mystery of it all, and heard a distinct call that would change his life and the course of history for the Hebrew people.
Every bush is burning around us, but it takes grace, patience, and imagination to awaken to the God who speaks through them. How do we recognize the signs of God’s in-breaking presence in the ordinary world? How can we trust and respond to them when they seem so unlikely and unexpected?
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
One of the greatest mistakes we can make in this life is to assume that God’s presence and call is limited to certain “holy” times and places. We’re inclined to think that God-moments only happen in church, or during particularly religious experiences, or when we are especially deserving of them. We tend to look for God in the extraordinary, when more often, God shows up most powerfully in the unexpected and ordinary moments of our lives.
Moses had one of those moments. While tending Jethro’s sheep in the wilderness, a bush caught fire but was not consumed—an extraordinary event in the most ordinary of places. Moses took notice, paused, beheld the beauty and mystery of it all, and heard a distinct call that would change his life and the course of history for the Hebrew people.
Every bush is burning around us, but it takes grace, patience, and imagination to awaken to the God who speaks through them. How do we recognize the signs of God’s in-breaking presence in the ordinary world? How can we trust and respond to them when they seem so unlikely and unexpected?
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
In the unrelenting busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking and in our sleeping. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm to the seasons as the growth of spring and summer is hushed by the dormancy of fall and winter.
In a culture that values action and accomplishment over rest and respite, we have lost our rhythm. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the stillness that would give us wisdom. We miss the quiet that would give us peace of mind. We miss the delight of simply being—with God, with others, with ourselves. For want of rest, our lives are in danger.
It is time to recover the rhythm of rest by reclaiming the meaning and practices of Sabbath. Join us for this seven-part series on finding rest and delight for our busy lives. What we’ll discover along the way is that when we keep the Sabbath, we are caring not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
In the unrelenting busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking and in our sleeping. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm to the seasons as the growth of spring and summer is hushed by the dormancy of fall and winter.
In a culture that values action and accomplishment over rest and respite, we have lost our rhythm. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the stillness that would give us wisdom. We miss the quiet that would give us peace of mind. We miss the delight of simply being—with God, with others, with ourselves. For want of rest, our lives are in danger.
It is time to recover the rhythm of rest by reclaiming the meaning and practices of Sabbath. Join us for this seven-part series on finding rest and delight for our busy lives. What we’ll discover along the way is that when we keep the Sabbath, we are caring not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
In the unrelenting busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking and in our sleeping. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm to the seasons as the growth of spring and summer is hushed by the dormancy of fall and winter.
In a culture that values action and accomplishment over rest and respite, we have lost our rhythm. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the stillness that would give us wisdom. We miss the quiet that would give us peace of mind. We miss the delight of simply being—with God, with others, with ourselves. For want of rest, our lives are in danger.
It is time to recover the rhythm of rest by reclaiming the meaning and practices of Sabbath. Join us for this seven-part series on finding rest and delight for our busy lives. What we’ll discover along the way is that when we keep the Sabbath, we are caring not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 22, 2019
In the unrelenting busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking and in our sleeping. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm to the seasons as the growth of spring and summer is hushed by the dormancy of fall and winter.
In a culture that values action and accomplishment over rest and respite, we have lost our rhythm. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the stillness that would give us wisdom. We miss the quiet that would give us peace of mind. We miss the delight of simply being—with God, with others, with ourselves. For want of rest, our lives are in danger.
It is time to recover the rhythm of rest by reclaiming the meaning and practices of Sabbath. Join us for this seven-part series on finding rest and delight for our busy lives. What we’ll discover along the way is that when we keep the Sabbath, we are caring not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
In the unrelenting busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking and in our sleeping. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm to the seasons as the growth of spring and summer is hushed by the dormancy of fall and winter.
In a culture that values action and accomplishment over rest and respite, we have lost our rhythm. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the stillness that would give us wisdom. We miss the quiet that would give us peace of mind. We miss the delight of simply being—with God, with others, with ourselves. For want of rest, our lives are in danger.
It is time to recover the rhythm of rest by reclaiming the meaning and practices of Sabbath. Join us for this seven-part series on finding rest and delight for our busy lives. What we’ll discover along the way is that when we keep the Sabbath, we are caring not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
In the unrelenting busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking and in our sleeping. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm to the seasons as the growth of spring and summer is hushed by the dormancy of fall and winter.
In a culture that values action and accomplishment over rest and respite, we have lost our rhythm. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the stillness that would give us wisdom. We miss the quiet that would give us peace of mind. We miss the delight of simply being—with God, with others, with ourselves. For want of rest, our lives are in danger.
It is time to recover the rhythm of rest by reclaiming the meaning and practices of Sabbath. Join us for this seven-part series on finding rest and delight for our busy lives. What we’ll discover along the way is that when we keep the Sabbath, we are caring not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
In the unrelenting busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking and in our sleeping. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm to the seasons as the growth of spring and summer is hushed by the dormancy of fall and winter.
In a culture that values action and accomplishment over rest and respite, we have lost our rhythm. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the stillness that would give us wisdom. We miss the quiet that would give us peace of mind. We miss the delight of simply being—with God, with others, with ourselves. For want of rest, our lives are in danger.
It is time to recover the rhythm of rest by reclaiming the meaning and practices of Sabbath. Join us for this seven-part series on finding rest and delight for our busy lives. What we’ll discover along the way is that when we keep the Sabbath, we are caring not only for ourselves, but for the whole world.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
There will come a day when you feel it—the call to adventure, the mysterious lure guiding you toward a particular decision, which is your destiny. It will seem illogical, maybe even unthinkable, but it will be undeniable. For many, it will be too daunting, too uncomfortable, and the adventure will end before it even begins.
But we have a name for those who dare to leave the ordinary world in pursuit of that adventure. We call them “heroes.” They are not immune to insecurity or fear, or to the resistance that will surely stand in their way. As they cross the threshold into the unknown world, trials await them, mentors awaken them, safety eludes them. But, in the end, a precious gift is given. What makes them a hero is not that they finally find that gift, but that they return home and share it generously.
Join us this Lent as we follow the One who answered the call and made the hero’s journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem, from life to death, and returned to his people with the gift of love unending and life everlasting. By following his hero’s journey, we come to better understand our own.