Welcome Prayer

Walk through your house. In each room pray, “Welcome, Lord Jesus.” Do the same thing in your office, your gym, your local coffee shop–in every place you go throughout the day. Be especially conscious if you hesitate from welcoming Christ in any place.

Healing

Imagine your life is a body. Think about the wounds on the body– the cuts and scrapes that need to be healed. You have covered the wounds with a bandage, but in order to heal the wounds must be exposed and cleaned. Imagine Jesus as a nurse working to clean the wounds of your life. [...]

Walk with Jesus

Read the story of the road to Emmaus found in Luke 24:13-35 Place yourself within the story. Walk the road carrying all of your disappointments–your hopes that didn’t pan out, the community you wanted but could never find, the salvation by God that you could never feel, the justice that continues to seem denied. Imagine [...]

Connect

Visit someone you’ve been meaning to visit, Call someone you’ve been meaning to call, Write someone you’ve been meaning to write– Open your time and welcome the spirit’s call to someone in your life you’ve been meaning to connect with but haven’t. Connect now–the spirit may be leading you to that person for a reason… [...]

Clean the Dishes

Clean the dishes, Pick up a messy room, Organize your desk– Find a mundane act of work and make it holy. In every part of the work, be present, wash every dish with care, praise God for each aspect of the action– the soap, your hands, the potter. ______________________________________________ “There are no unsacred places; there [...]

Theophany

Called Epiphany in the West, Theophany in the East, today is a celebration of the revealing of God to the gentiles, most notably the Magi. When the Magi came they named Christ as a king on a level never before seen. Philosopher Dallas Willard has said that a kingdom is the “extent of our effective [...]

Game with Minutes

For an hour, during your day to day life, try to be conscious of God’s presence for one second of every minute. How well did you do? Bonus: Read the “Sermon on the Mount” ______________________________________________________________________ “The Game with Minutes” by Frank Laubach

Silence

Read 1 Kings 19:9-18 Then find the quietest place you can Sit there as long as you can _____________________________________________________________________________ “The Joy of Quiet” by Pico Iyer

Confession

Sit down and think through your sins. What are the things you do that prevent you from seeing God? What is it that keeps you from love of others, love of God, even love of yourself? Spend 15 minutes reflecting on this and make a list with thorough descriptions. Then meet with your pastor or [...]

What God Has Given

Look for and recognize the gifts God has given to others Marvel in them Celebrate them Be humble in your own gifts and center your praise to God on the gifts of the people you have had the fortune to call friends, brothers, and sisters in Christ. Write a note to someone whose gifts you [...]