Advent Family Prayer
Here is a guide for prayer that I compiled for my family to using this Advent. I’m happy to share it with you. I’d love to hear if you find it useful as well.
Family Prayer at the Evening Meal
My family has recently begun an intentional prayer and scripture time modeled after the daily office that we use each evening before dinner. Still a work in progress, here is the format we are currently following.
Welcome!
I want to send a hearty welcome out to anyone who was directed to this website from the Real Life, Real Faith Blogathon on Faith ON Campus. It is a privelage to be included among such great contributors.
I also wanted to let you know that my writing is currently focused on my DMIN Project and I will be rather quiet on this website until this project is completed. Sure, I’ll post a quote or a brief article once in a while, but the conversation will really pick up again in Spring 2011.
In the mean time, feel free to subscribe to my rss feed so you’ll be informed when I do post!
Book Review: I Quit! by Geri Scazzero
I count Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero to be among the most transforming books I have read. When the good folks at Zondervan offered to send a free review copy of I Quit! by Geri Scazzero, I jumped at the chance to review this new book by Peter’s wife. However, my wife grabbed the book before I had the chance to read it. She found it so revealing and transforming that I asked her to write a review. So, here are her thoughts on the book.
"Fundamentally, our mission (if it is biblically informed and validated) means our committed participation as God’s people, at God’s invitation and command, in God’s own mission within the history of God’s world for the redemption of God’s creation… . Our mission flows from and participates in the mission of God."
— Christopher J.H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative, 22-23
"The missional church is the people of God partnering with God in his redemptive mission in the world."
— Reggie McNeal, Missional Renaissance
"We are scattered, fragmented people; we do not know how to be fully present. Has not a chief measure of success become the ability to multitask? Multitasking is simply a positive spin on not being fully present to any one task."
— Rev. Pat Hannon, 2007
"It is part of the misguided and whimsical condition of humankind that we so devoutly believe in the power of effort-at-the-moment-of-action alone to accomplish what we want and completely ignore the need for character change in our lives as a whole. The general human failing is to want what is right and important, but at the same time not to commit to the kind of life that will produce the action we know to be right and the condition we want to enjoy. This is the feature of human character that explains why the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We intend what is right, but we avoid the life that would make it a reality."
— Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines
"The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission, there is no Church."
— Emil Bruner, The Word and the World (1931)
"To neglect our missional sending as the church is not just to be weak on mission while possibly still being strong on word and sacrament. To neglect our missional sending is to betray the inherent dynamic of word and sacrament."
— John F. Hoffmeyer, “The Missional Trinity”
