Healthy Edible Flowers – Wonderful Addition to a Salad

It is probably obvious that I am enjoying the garden at the moment.  We finally seem to have hit summer – while the rest of the country has been sweltering we have been having one of the coldest summers on record.  Anyhow the greens in the garden are wonderful and I just picked one of [...]

Growing an Autumn Garden – Its Time to Start

Hard to believe it but it is time to start your autumn vegetables. In fact it may already be too late to direct seed some vegetables so a trip to the nursery may also be required. I just watched this helpful video

Prayers for the Journey

Here is my weekly round up of facebook prayers In this time of budget crisis Be with all those who face cutbacks Care for the vulnerable Provide for the destitute Fill those who are hungry with good things ___________________________________ God in this time of budget crisis Be with those who make decisions Speak through those [...]

Budget Crisis/ Prayer Vigil

Yesterday I was asked by Holly Hight at Bread for the World to contribute a prayer for their Budget Crisis Prayer Vigil on Twitter and Facebook.  I don’t usually like to get involved in political issues but as I thought about it this morning I realized that it was too important for me not to.  It [...]

A tribute to John Stott.

Many of you have probably already heard that John Stott died yesterday The Reverend John Stott, who died on July 27 aged 90, was one of the most influential clergymen of the 20th century; indeed in 2005 Time magazine declared him to be one of the 100 most influential people in the world.  read the [...]

Catalysts for God-Inspired Change in a Turbulent World – We Can Make the World A Better Place

The MSA team has just completed two very successful but draining days of planning.  We have talked a lot about Jubilee and our desire to enable followers of Christ to dream new dreams and reimagine how to live and serve God in a changing world with the wonderful shalom future of God in mind.  It [...]

Sit in the contentment of the moment – Pray with us

This morning I wrote this prayer during my morning meditations. God we sit in the contentment of this moment, Knowing it holds all we need to find you, We sit with still hearts and quiet minds to welcome everything it offers, May we be at peace, experience freedom and enter your rest. it seemed like [...]

Life in a two-beat rhythm – by Lynne Baab

The posts for Worshipping God in the Real World have been few and far between lately.  Hmm I wonder if that is a symptom of something?  But more of that later.  Today we have another post from Lynne Baab the author of the recently released Friending: Real Relationships in a Virtual World, as well as numerous [...]

The Tree of Contemplative Practices

This has been a very good contemplative weekend for me, in spite of an overwhelming feeling of busyness and the need to get my life back into God’s rhythm. At church yesterday I felt as though the scriptures that were read have been written just for me.   First in 1 Kings 3:4-12 God’s approval of [...]

Great Update From Tracy Howe Wispelwey at the The Restoration Project

I have just been listening to some of the beautiful songs from Tracy’s latest album Hold On To Love .  I love the prophetic and challenging lyrics that Tracy shares and thought that you might appreciate this update from her .  She is a voice well worth listening to if you have not yet discovered her [...]