Some practices to help refresh our relationships through humility...
Some practices to help to refresh love…
Some practices to help to refresh our listening to God…
(based loosely on suggestions of V.E.Hess in THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES DEVOTIONAL)
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” (Romans 12:12)
Some practices to help to refresh...
Last week we highlighted the verse, “Rejoice in the Lord always: I say it again, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4). We heard it as a call for us to cultivate or nurture joy. We can take up the practice of the discipline of celebration. Just as Paul calls us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, we can work out our joy in the Lord.
Here are some suggested exercises for this week (based on suggestions of A. Ahlberg Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook).
I’m very excited for next weekend as I plan to be with my mother who was born June 15, 1928, making her 90 years old this year!! It is quite a birthday number to mark as we know from a number of our own members here at Bethel Church.
Last Sunday we reflected on what is sometimes known as the other Lord’s prayer, the prayer of Jesus recorded in John 17, the night before his crucifixion. Unlike the Lord’s prayer of Matthew 6 which teaches us how to pray; this passage shows Jesus himself in prayer.
