Labyrinth in Lavender – Lets Celebrate World Labyrinth Day

Yesterday I posted this gorgeous photo on facebook Thanks to my good friend Patty Doty, I found out that this marvellous lavender labyrinth is in Kastellaun Germany. I love labyrinths and as many of you know we construct one each year for our Celtic retreat on Camano Island in August and a couple of years ago [...]

Virgin Mary &The Bible’s Answer to Human Trafficking by Rev. Rajkumar Boaz Johnson

I have been strongly moved by a series on The Bible’s Answer to Human Trafficking that has been published over the last few weeks in Christians for Biblical Equality’s weekly ezine ARISE. The articles are written by Rev. Rajkumar Boaz Johnson (PhD, Trinity International University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) a professor of Biblical and Theological [...]

Remember Our Story by Ellen Haroutunian

This morning’s post in the series: Jesus Is Coming What Do We Expect comes from Ellen Haroutunian. It was first published on her blog as Advent 2011 Synchroblog: Remember Our Story. I feel that as we move closer to Christmas and start to feel more and more overwhelmed by the frenzied hype that beckons us [...]

Surrounded by Prophetic Voices – Clouds of Witnesses that Call Us Out of Numbness

Today is All Saints Day, and like many who celebrate this festival I have been meditating on the words of Hebrews 12:1,2 this morning which I quote here from the Living New Testament. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every [...]

Taking Worship Seriously by Worship Curator Mark Pierson

This morning’s post comes from our good friend Mark Pierson, who has been a worship curator for more than 15 years. Mark Pierson blogs athttp://www.clayfirecurator.org. He is author of the recent book The Art of Curating Worship. ____________________________________________________________________________ It worries me that we don’t take corporate public worship seriously enough. I’m referring to those who plan [...]

Tools for Prayer – The Entire Series

Over the last couple of weeks I have posted a number of articles on tools for prayer.  For those that have been following along but may have missed some here is the entire series.  However I do realize too that this is a never ending discussion and I hope that in the coming days some [...]

What is Worship?

I hosted a blog series over the summer on worshipping God in the real world.  To be honest I was a little disappointed with the response  Most of the posts were about traditional spiritual practices like praying and singing hymns in the midst of everyday life.  Now don’t get me wrong, I think that these [...]

Expressive Arts Therapy as a tool for prayer meditation by Kim Balke

This morning’s post comes from Kim Balke, an expressive arts therapist in British Columbia I was looking at this drawing the other day and I asked myself, just where did this image come from?  I invite you to do a little digging with me in my prayer garden using a few tools that I have [...]

Prayer Flags – Are they Only for Buddhists?

A friend recently mentioned to me how much they love to make Christian prayer flags.  Once again I was caught off guard because I have always tended to see prayer flags as a Buddhist tradition rather than a Christian practice.  Ironically as I researched on the web, most of the initial references to Christian prayer [...]

Using Icons – a Powerful Tool or Graven Images

Icons are an integral part of orthodox worship and serve a variety of functions: (1) They enhance the beauty of a church. (2) They instruct us in matters pertaining to the Christian faith. (3) They remind us of this faith. (4) They lift us up to the prototypes which they symbolize, to a higher level [...]