Lectio Divina, or “sacred reading”, is a powerful meditative process for allowing the Lord to speak to us through scripture. It asks us to quiet our hearts and minds in order to immerse ourselves in the words, so that God may reveal something to us that can meet our stories in the here-and-now.
It’s been twenty-three(!) Sundays since we last met in person. I am absolutely stunned by that number, because it feels simultaneously like no time has passed, and yet in the same breath that we have been in this strange exile for so long…
Three weeks ago, I almost broke. I’m sure it had been coming for some time, but I began to notice how heavy I was feeling, how distracted I was from moment to moment. I wasn’t sleeping well. My discipline was out the window. I knew I had to get a handle on what was going on inside myself, so I took a whole morning to do what I’m constantly recommending you all do - I sat with Jesus.
The elders of City Beautiful Church repent of our inaction in the ongoing fight against racial injustice.
…She didn’t know what was wrong and after a few minutes she said, “I just really miss my friends, my school and my teacher”. I realized – my kids are grieving too, and they don’t know how to name it. If they can’t name it then they certainly don’t know how to work through it…
Psalms are essentially the worship book for the Hebrew people. They were read publicly, often as call-and-response during services; hence the way lines are broken and indented on the page…
“Jesus told them a parable, about how they should always pray and not give up...” (Luke 18:1)
Your calling is found at the intersection of your story, personality, and gifts…Read More
We wrapped up LISTENING TO THE HEARTBEAT OF GOD by weaving some of the major themes into our prayer for approaching the Lord’s Table. This liturgy is a combination of texts from the Book of Common Prayer, call-and-response reading of scripture, and custom-written words that connect to our series… Read More
Our culture is in something of an emotional renaissance. There is an interest in emotional health and integration that has not been seen for several generations; one only needs to peruse social media to see the meteoric rise in conversation and resources directed towards better knowing our own hearts… Read More
This week we learned the process of Lectio Divina, or “sacred reading” of the scriptures as a way to listen to God speaking to us... Read More
