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From Steve Ryan
The book Confessions, by St. Augustine, is universally considered to be a spiritual masterpiece. It is the story of one man’s journey and the challenges he faced on the road to conversion. Like many other people, Augustine had to overcome the desires of his flesh as well as intellectual objections before finally surrendering [...]

In part 1, we looked at the Jewish expectations of the coming Kingdom of God and how it differed from the Kingdom that Jesus proclaimed. Now, I’d like to look at a particular portion of the proclamation - the Kingdom “is near”
What exactly does Jesus mean that the Kingdom of Heaven is “near” or, [...]

I am currently reading The Great Omission by Dallas Willard and I came across something that I thought could be very helpful. He calls it the “Golden Triangle” of Spiritual Formation.

Side 1. The faithful acceptance of everyday problems. This is where we learn to do what the book of James teaches (and [...]

Throughout the Gospels, we repeatedly hear Jesus mentioning and teaching about the “kingdom of Heaven” (31 times) or the “kingdom of God” (65 times). Many of the Jews of the day had certain expectations, based off of their interpretation of Old Testament prophesy (Isaiah 9:1-7 for example), as to what this kingdom would [...]

I’m currently working on completing my application for grad school and one of the questions is this:
Describe 3-4 transformational events and the meaning of these events for you as a Christian.
Really good question to think about!  Reflecting like this can be a valuable exercise.  Think about the Old Testament people, they were constantly remembering the [...]

By Angela Coon
It’s the beginning of the year and most of us are setting new goals. One that I always reset is reading through the Bible or spending more time in actual study of the Word. This is an important goal for spiritual formation but we seem to have such a difficult time making it [...]

Spiritual transformation…
…is essential, not optional, for Christ-followers.
…is a process, not an event.
…is God’s work, but requires my participation.
…involves those practices, experiences, and relationships that help me live intimately with Christ and walk as if he were in my place.
…is not a compartmentalized pursuit. God is not interested in my spiritual life; he’s interested in my [...]

Recently, my wife and I decided to take up running for exercise again.  It’s been a while so needless to say it’s going to take some work.  But, I really want to get in better shape, so I’m committed to the idea.
To prepare, we downloaded a running regimen put to music onto the ipod, dusted [...]

Two Sunday’s ago, Calvary had a missions focused day of worship. The day was filled with beautiful ethnic decorations, international foods, and two well-traveled missionaries who presented the morning and evening messages. It was a wonderful day of helping us followers of Jesus get exposed to what God is doing in the world. [...]