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Recent events in my life have prompted me to keep a daily journal of my prayers and conversations with God.  I’ll call these my “Love Letters to God.”   Maxie Dunnam reminds us, and emphasizes, that “Jesus is alive today” and, therefore, the physical act of writing to Him allows me to “put our relationship in [...]

We’re starting a forty day study.  It’s not the first one for the church; and there’ll be others.  We started this blog a year ago to facilitate day to day “conversation” about another study, Treasures of the Transformed Life.  The temptation is to read seven chapters on Saturday night (or skim seven chapters in fifteen [...]

To start some more blogging on our site, I thought it would interesting to read what Wikipedia had to say about the Gospel of Luke we are studying. Here is what I found. The Gospel of Luke is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament. [...]

The Liturgy (or “service”) of the Word can be traced back to the Jewish exile following the destruction of the first Temple.  By reading the scriptures, God’s chosen people could maintain their identity even in exile.  With the Temple gone, these scriptural readings evolved into synagogue worship. Because the earliest Christians were predominantly Jewish, it [...]

This writing is from “A Guide to Prayer for all who seek God”.  I wanted to share it with you all. “We begin the seasons of the church year with anticipation, and we end the seasons of the church year declaring a certainty.  In Advent we waited for the needed and longed for definitive and [...]

This is even harder to define than the term “High Church”.  Both have very subjective connotations to different people, but I have to say I was surprised at how difficult it was to pin down specifics on just what would constitute emerging worship.  Let’s see what some emerging worship oriented websites say: The Presbyterian Church [...]

What about the rest of the week?  In the early church there were daily morning and evening services in the larger cities — generally limited to a cathedral.  These services, which were attended by people going to and coming from their daily occupations, came to be referred to as “Cathedral Prayer”.  In addition to this [...]

What do we mean when we talk about “worship”?  In class today, we talked about worship as praising God, as a time of fellowship and communion, as prayer, as service . . .  Worship is all these things. Martin Luther, in a sermon preached at the dedication of the first church built for Protestant worship [...]

I had gotten a little behind on my reading this week.  Rob and I have tried to read the chapters together in the mornings, but sometimes schedules (and forgetfulness) have gotten in the way.  As I was looking over the remaining chapters for the week, I was struck by an idea that I remembered from [...]

A standard of excellence…..  Bur he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.   II Corinthians 12: 9  Jesus was our model for excellence and perfection.  As [...]