Lord Jesus Christ Draw Close – A New Advent Video for 2011

This year’s Advent video focuses on our need to draw close to our Lord Jesus Christ during the Advent season. The music is “In Toto Corde ~ Lament” from the CD, ANTIPHON by the Coram Deo Ensemble. Below is a low quality preview, which you are free to use. The high quality version is now [...]

World Population – 7 Billion and Counting

The world’s population is about to hit 7 billion.  And it seems only yesterday since we hit 6 billion (actually 12 years).  So what does this all mean.  Here is a helpful video to give an over all perspective of the trends. And for those that find 7 minutes a little long to sit and [...]

Tools for Prayer – Learning from Teresa of Avila

I have always found inspiration from the lives of those who have gone before us.  Their footprints provide places for me to stand and words and prayers encourage and strengthen me as I too seek to move forward into the ways of God. Teresa of Avila is one such person.  In many ways she was [...]

Worshipping God in the Reality of Riots – by James Prescott

Many of us watched in horror last week as riots broke out across England. Today’s post if from James Prescott who came closer than he ever wanted to the reality of these events. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Worshipping God in the reality of riots   The theme of this blog series was meant to be ‘Worshipping God in [...]

Celebrating the Big 60th

Today is my 60th birthday.  Hard to believe that I have been on God’s good earth for such a span of time.  And it has been a wonderful time so far.  I am humbled by the numbers that have contacted me in the last couple of days to share ways in which my life and [...]

Population in Australia – Does it Matter

This is a very hurried post as Tom & I are just about to head to Camano Island for our Celtic retreat.  It comes from an email sent to me by Bruce Hulme who lives in Adelaide Australia.  I thought that many of you might find it interesting. Last night there was a significant documentary [...]

Am I Worshipping God for Only Me?

I don’t usually blog or in fact open my computer on Sundays but because we are still waiting to make sure that our flight out of Pittsburgh this afternoon is actually going to fly, my routines have been somewhat disrupted.  So I decided to work on another Lenten meditation video based on Isaiah 58.  In [...]

What Shapes our Spirituality?

This week my main task is to complete the lead article for the MSA Seed Sampler on What Will Shape Our Spirituality in the Coming Decade?  It is a rather daunting task to narrow this down to a couple of trends as there are so many things that will shape both our spiritual practices and [...]

What If We Were in Charge of Jesus’ Publicity?

This hilarious video gives a wonderful idea of how Jesus parable of walking on the water might be reinterpreted (with commercials of course) by modern day marketers. I felt that underneath the humour there was a sobering and unfortunately probably truthful message about consumerism and the gospel.

Building A Dream for the Future

Tonight we are hosting a brainstorming session.  We are building a futures’ watch group and dreaming about how we can equip followers of Jesus to imagine new ways to be a difference and make a difference in God’s world.  We don’t just want to help people come up with ideas about how to live into [...]