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Showing posts with label 51.52.Spiritual.Practices.Personal.Resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 51.52.Spiritual.Practices.Personal.Resources. Show all posts
2025-11-14

PRAYER: Communication with our Source

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2024-03-18

Acts and Afterlife, Hope and Gospel

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Recently a friend online posted this quote: "In all of the evangelistic sermons in the Book of Acts, none of them makes an appeal to af...
2024-03-17

You are a Theophany

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Every single person is a theophany. May we all see God’s image in each and every person God puts in our path, and welcome them as we would w...
2023-05-21

The Magi In My Life

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This is an Epiphany sermon based in the story of the magi from Matthew 2.1-11 , as well as the Episcopal School of Dallas virtue of “Opennes...
2023-01-01

Scriptures on experiencing Divine Light

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I figured I would start the year with a little Bible study. Here are some things that Scripture tells us about Divine Light and how we may e...
2022-03-06

A Personal Relationship with Jesus?

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Recently a good friend of mine asked me a great question. He is a person of considerable spiritual depth and commitment to Christ, yet he ha...
2022-01-30

On reading while walking

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This is probably old hat to many people, or just not needed for your lifestyle. But if this helps, here’s a life hack: I love reading, and t...
2021-01-23

A Provocation on Individualism

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Western individualism, in which the self is essentially divorced from communal interconnections and social responsibility, is nothing more t...
2021-01-10

Two kinds of Mystical Experience: Ecstasy and Emphasis

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Let all that you do be done in love. (1 Corinthians 16:14) There are at least two kinds of mystical experience of God: Ecstasy and Emphasis...
2020-12-31

Glimpses of the Sacred

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Where is holiness to be found? Where are the thin places The fjords between This shore and that Great Beyond? Where is the fabric of reality...
2020-06-01

Worship is God's Love embodied

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I encourage you, brothers and sisters, through the deep compassion of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to ...
2020-05-25

The Pentecostal Promise

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When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the ru...
2020-04-02

Mundane Mysticism

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Why do we look for a Divine Realm  Of depth and richness  Beyond the elaborately embroidered world  We live and move and exist within?...
2019-12-28

Five Persistent Illusions: Ownership, Separation, Time, Death, and Self

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Four seductive myths beguile us, and five persistent illusions blind us to the Reality of Love that we live and move and exist within: Ow...
2019-12-18

Consumerism, Yoga, and Meditation

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Over the last two decades there have been a vast number of studies which document the effectiveness of mindfulness and meditation on ever...
2018-12-12

Passage Meditation for Busy Humans

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Recently I've started practicing what is called " passage meditation ". This is where you take a short chunk of Scripture a...
2018-11-04

A provocation on Spiritual Liberation

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“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom” (2Corinthians 3.17). This is a manifesto of Liberation. The Spirit liberates us from bon...
2018-05-31

Four Years of Fitness Logging

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Note: The material here has been incorporated and enlarged into my comprehensive  Training Program and Principles , as well as my thoughts...
2018-01-29

How to make a paracord Prayer Rope

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The above video is a brief description of how to make a (nearly) indestructible Prayer Rope out of nylon paracord. A Prayer Rope is a v...
2017-11-07

The Politics of Daily Bread

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Communist Revolution in Russia. It began as a righteous revolt against the real injustices of livi...