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Category Archives: Spiritual Disciplines
Planning for Growth in 2010
The beginning of a new year is always a good time to evaluate your life and make plans for growth and development. Though, as probably many people know from experience, if you don’t have a plan, your resolutions don’t last too long. Planning for growth is essential to experiencing growth. To help with this, I’ve put together a simple tool to help you plan for growth in 2010. It covers areas of your life with God (based partially on Renovare’s six streams), your personal sphere of influence, and other areas of life that you may want to grow in. I … Continue reading
Rule of Life: Service
Part 4 0f 4 in the Simple Rule of Life Series In this brief series, I’ve discussed what could be seen as a Rule of Life Tripod. Three simple things to build our daily life around: Prayer, Scripture, and Service. In this post, I’ll wrap it up by looking at the third leg: Service. Service – following the example of Jesus, the one who came not to be served but to serve Kevin Hart: I’m a Grown Little Man on dvd I think that living a life of service is just as central to following Jesus as prayer and Scripture … Continue reading
Rule of Life: Scripture
Part 3 of 4 in a series on A Simple Rule of Life The second leg of the Rule of Life Tripod is Scripture. Scripture – not just a quick reading, but an immersion in Scripture that cleanses and transforms us as we read, study, meditate, memorize, and live it We begin with prayer in which we learn to develop an ongoing conversation with God and now we move to Scripture in which God continues to speak to us and bring about the life transformation we need. In seeing Scripture as part of a rule of life (a rhythm for … Continue reading
Rule of Life: Prayer
In this previous post I presented what might be used as a simple rule of life. I’d like to take the next couple of posts, to unpack the tripod of prayer, Scripture, and service. Prayer We can think of prayer as an ongoing conversation with God that not only roots our day (by beginning and ending our day with him), but also weaves throughout it as we are in constant conversation with him. To make prayer a part of our rule of life, we need to learn to see prayer as more than just a few sporadic moments, but as … Continue reading
A Simple Rule of Life
Throughout the centuries, groups of people that have desired to live their life for God have lived by what has been called a “Rule of Life” (more on the rule of life here and here.) Basically, a rule of life can be thought of as a kind of rhythm for daily living, or perhaps the pillars or tripod that help you to build your life around Christ. Don’t let the name “rule” throw you off though! This isn’t about being ritualistic and legalistic, but it is about living a disciplined life of training. Really, if we think about it, we … Continue reading
Discipline of Detachment
In just the past few decades, our common communication tools have gone from handwritten letters, land line phones, and face to face conversations to email, blogs, cell phones, Facebook, Twitter, and Blackberry’s, all to help us become “more connected” (or at least connect us more often). Now, these advances in technology are not inherently bad, but they do pose new challenges when it comes to maintaining balance in our life. Many of these new tools constantly draw us to connect, to be plugged in. But, in the midst of our “always on” life, we must not neglect the frequent call … Continue reading
Reap what you sow…
This past Sunday, at Calvary Assembly of God buy The Moguls Revolutionary Road psp Revenge of the Ninja hd Shadow Puppets divx , Pastor Coon preached about sowing to the Spirit so that you can reap a harvest in the Spirit. This comes from Galatians 6:7-9 which says, Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Here the Apostle Paul is using the analogy … Continue reading
