In this season, we begin to look forward to the coming of Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Lately I have been thinking more about the...

What is the liturgical year? ​ The liturgical year is different from the calendar year. The calendar year is a sequence of dates, a way...

The problem of praying in relationship with God rather than just speaking a list of requests in prayer, mentioned in my previous post,...

Luke 11:1 "Lord, teach us to pray...." Why did the disciples, who grew up in a culture where they'd surely learned about and practiced...

"I should pray more." So many Christians live their lives with the sense that if only they could find time and discipline to pray more,...

The Christian faith is all about love. It's been called the "world's great love religion." The most basic principle of Christian teaching...

I stumbled upon spiritual direction by accident. Having been introduced to the language of evangelical Christianity in college, I was...

Psalm 6:2 "Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony." When I look around at my community and...

1 Cor. 13:12 "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even...

"Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God..." (Gal 4:9) So often Christians talk about knowing God and...

1 John 3:1-2 "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God.! And that is what we are! The...

My family did not observe Advent when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. I stumbled upon this special celebration as a young parent...

Most people have probably never heard these two words, "soul care," placed together. When and if we consider what self care means in the...