I heard an excellent lecture yesterday, and learned a few things. (Always good to be able to say that at the end of a lecture!) 🙂 It was on Matthew 7 and the characteristics that ought to define the relationships that Christians are to have with a variety of different sorts of people. The first…
today’s an Alexander day a day that’s full of wishes and all that i can think of now to rhyme is stupid: fishes?! so let’s abort the rhyming thing; revert to random thinking… it’s the kind of day when your pants don’t fit right when the coffee you really wanted you spilled down your…
By now, most of you know that worship is my passion. Sacred Space is intricately wrapped up in that. Some days I think that if I could create a dream job for myself, I would be a “Sacred Space Consultant” and travel around the world teaching churches how to create Sacred Space. (Then I get…
Someone once said, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life; go, and make the most of it.” Wise words, and advice worth taking. So I am going, and beginning this day where I began this blog – with the concept of Sabbath rest. I’m re-reading Mudhouse Sabbath slowly, with good coffee…
There’s a concept called na’aseh v’nishma; which means: “we will do and we will hear” or “we will do and we will understand.”* It’s about doing your faith, and coming to understand what it is you already believe as you practice it. Lauren Winner explains it a lot better than that, but that’s the gist…
