Celtic Spirituality – the Distinctives

I often get asked “Why are you interested in Celtic Christian spirituality?”  Below is a summary of the distinctives of this form of Christianity that make it attractive to me and have resulted in Mustard Seed Associates using it as the foundation for the annual retreat we hold.  This year’s retreat will be on Camano [...]

Building Community

Our 19th Annual Celtic retreat is only 2 weeks away.  This is my  favourite event of the year and I have been busy putting together the program for this exciting event.  So I thought that over the next few days I would give a sneak preview of some of the prayers and framework for the [...]

What Do I Believe About the Holy Spirit? – Advocate & Guide

The Holy Spirit tends to be the least understood of the part of the tripartate nature of God.  Those of us that were nurtured in the charismatic movement often think of tongues of fire and speaking in tongues, manifestations of the Holy Spirit’s presence. However the Holy Spirit is far more than a few showy [...]

Is Your Cell Phone Drenched in Blood

this morning I received an email from one of my favourite environmental organizations suggesting that I change my cell phone company away from the big multi national corporations to one that they approve of.  What does this have to do with my previous post on Who Is Jesus, you may wonder?  Well the email really [...]

What Do I Believe About Jesus – Redeemer/Saviour/Lord?

This week I am posting a series on What do I believe about God?  This is the third in the series and in some ways both the most important and the most challenging.  What do I believe about Jesus?  Who is this person that took hold of my life 45 years ago, and has faithfully [...]

Why I Believe in God – by Thule Kinnison

The following post was sent to me by Thule Kinnison who sent it to me saying: “I needed to write about Christ today.”  Like Thule I find I need to write about Christ today and everyday. ______________________________________________________________________________ I believe in God because I’ve lived most of my life as a drug addict and have now [...]

Who is God the Father/mother/creator to you?

Yesterday I talked about the need that all of us have to articulate what we believe.  This morning I wanted to express some of my beliefs about God the Father/mother/creator and would encourage you to do the same.  i have used Father/mother/creator because our God does not fit into a simple box and is not [...]

The Future of the City – is it Sustainable?

We all know the verse from Jeremiah “Without a vision the people perish.”  I just came across this fascinating vision of what our cities could look like in the future – if we had the vision to believe that it was possible.  Sustainability will always seem unattainable unless we have a vision of what it [...]

What Do You Believe About God?

A couple of days ago I was asked this question: What Do You Believe About God? by a friend who is struggling with their faith.  It was easy for me to jump in and give a pat answer without really thinking about what I was saying or even without giving much thought to the doubts [...]

God Build Community – A Celtic Prayer

I am working on the programme for our upcoming Celtic retreat & thought that you might enjoy this one of the prayers I have written. The theme is -Building Community God build your community From brokenness and indifference Build love and caring For you, for each other, for your creation God build your community From [...]