The Case
The Super Couple! That's what everyone called Bill and Donna. After selling his successful dentistry practice, Bill and Donna flung their lives into the ministries of Grace Church. They came early to pray with the pastor on Sunday mornings. They stayed late to discuss church business after council meetings. Both of them served as members of the Healing Prayer Team. They came to every Bible ...
The Super Couple Finding balance in Christian life and ministry. Mathew Woodley
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The Case
The Super Couple! That's what everyone called Bill and Donna. After selling his successful dentistry practice, Bill and Donna flung their lives into the ministries of Grace Church. They came early to pray with the pastor on Sunday mornings. They stayed late to discuss church business after council meetings. Both of them served as members of the Healing Prayer Team. They came to every Bible ...
Finding a Steady Rhythm The not-so-secret key to effective ministry and leadership by Ruth Haley Barton
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As church leaders, most of us know only one speed: full steam ahead. And we have been stuck in that speed for a very long time. If we do not establish saner rhythms in our own lives—life patterns that curb our unbridled activism and calm our compulsive busyness—we will not make it over the long haul. And neither will the people we are leading!
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists, but also that he is actively present in our lives—healing, teaching, and guiding—we need to set aside a time and space to give him our undivided attention.
Dallas Willard noted an experiment done with mice a few years ago. A researcher found that when amphetamines are given to a mouse in solitude, it takes a high dosage to kill it. Give it to a group of mice, and they start hopping around and hyping each other up so much that a fraction of the dosage will be lethal—so great is the effect of "the world" on mice. In fact, a mouse given no amphetamines ...
Benefits of a Spiritual Retreat Learn the value of stillness and rest, and remove the roadblocks that keep you from experiencing them. by Brenda Jank
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Looking back over my 12 years of taking spiritual retreats, I have noticed two specific gifts that regularly emerge from my private encounters with the Lord: stillness and rest.
The Importance of Stillness
The words quiet, alone, and undistracted do not describe the vast majority of our waking hours. It is in this mixture, however, that God often makes himself known. God shouts to us through the glories ...
Background Noise Understanding God’s rhythm of silence, speaking, and silence again by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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To a TV-shaped world, silence, even relative silence, is as threatening as piety—and much more puzzling. So people try to delete it. People haul their boom boxes to the seashore so that they do not have to live in the silence between the rolling of surf and the crying of gulls, and so that no one else can live there, either. Even contemporary worship, in some church settings, fills in silences ...
I've a new Bible hero of late: Lazarus. Not Luke's scabrous beggar, but Mary and Martha's ill-begotten brother. Most of his story is told in John 11—Lazarus's sickness, Jesus' reposeful delay, Lazarus's death, Mary's and Martha's upset with Jesus, Jesus' own upset ("Jesus wept"), and then the piece de resistance: Jesus' command to a corpse, "Lazarus, come forth!"
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