Spirituality
A Meditation Journey
Come, let me worship, fall down, and kneel before the Lord God who made me. Begin this quiet time of Meditation by stretching your entire body. Place your hands over your head, hold the wrist over one shoulder & pull upward for about 10 seconds, then pull the other wrist. Next take a moment to […]
Stillness And Quietness Bring Strength
Be still and know that I am God. Tremble with fear and stop sinning; think deeply about this when you lie in silence on your beds. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! When I awake, I am still with you. Jesus stood up and commanded […]
17th Century Nun’s Prayer
Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself, that I am growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me from craving to straighten out everybody’s affairs. Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not […]
Spirituality In The New Millennium
Will Spirituality Survive in the New Millennium? by E. Glenn Hinson A few weeks ago, a Korean editor asked me to write an article commenting on whether spirituality will survive in the next millennium. The question took my mind back to two visits I made to the Soviet Union just before it dissolved in 1989. […]
Spiritual Direction: A Bibliography
A Selective Bibliography on Spiritual Direction and Discernment Principles and Practices of Spiritual Direction Baird-Smith, Robin ed. Living Water: An Anthology of Letters of Direction. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987. ** Barry, William A. and William J. Connolly. The Practice of Spiritual Direction. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982. Benefiel, Margaret. “Spiritual Direction for Organizations: Towards […]
Fasting
GREGG EASTERBROOK Fasting Chic Has fasting become a fad? In an age of over-abundance, people of all faiths are fasting as a spiritual path. You might not have guessed it from the lines at your local Mega Burger drive-through, but fasting is chic. Americans, who are increasingly thinking about spiritual matters, are at the very […]
Fasting: How And Why
FR. TED STYLIANOPOULOS How (and Why) to Fast Fasting helps us get our priorities straight. It also helps us gather spiritual energy for doing good. Q. I am entering Orthodoxy in the Russian tradition, and I need some big time help with the particulars of fasting–what to eat and not to eat. In an age […]
The Story Of The Praying Hands
Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of the household, a goldsmith by profession, worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade and any other paying chore […]
Can You Pray Your Way To Health?
Studies show that praying for your own health may be beneficial, but they are less conclusive about when others pray for you. News stories, midmorning talk shows, and celebrity figures such as Deepak Chopra claim that prayer can improve health. Biologists, pundits, and others scoff at the same assertion. As is typical of so many […]
Prayer – Pastors’ Induction
Let us pray. Almighty God’ and heavenly Father, by your infinite love and goodness you have given us your only Son Jesus Christ to be our redeemer and the author of eternal life. After he had ascended into heaven. he sent into the world his apostles, prophets, evangelists. teachers and pastors, by whose ministries, he […]
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