Spiritual Growth
"But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." 2 Peter 3:18
This Changes Everything!
By Jay+ Wright | | Celebrate, Spiritual Growth | Easter, Living in the Resurrection, Text
Don’t let your Easter joy wane! Don’t let your “Alleluias!” diminish! Enter into Sunday worship with awe and expectation.
Lent and the Gospel of Suffering
By Lyn Baker | | Celebrate, Spiritual Growth | Lent, pain, suffering, Text
How do we talk about a gospel of suffering? “Gospel” means “good news.” How is suffering ever good news?? Suffering is not getting what you want and getting what you don’t want. Every single human being has both experiences.
If We Only Know Scripture as a Text, We Don’t Know it at All
By Dustin+ Messer | | Scripture, Spiritual Growth | Text
Reading Scripture is a communal act in which each individual reader is brought into an accountable relationship with every other reader.
31 Bible Reflection Tips
By Carol Dowsett | | Scripture, Spiritual Growth | Bible Study, Text
As we grow in faith and develop the practice of daily Bible reading, sometimes we can reduce the discipline into a less-than-meaningful habit. Here are a 31 refreshing ways to approach Scripture and gain deep, life-giving insights.
Focusing on Christ’s Victory During Lent: Helpful Tools
By | | Celebrate, Prayer, Spiritual Growth | Lent, resources, Text
There are certain tools I have found to be particularly helpful in focusing on Christ's victory in my own life during the season of Lent. It is important to start small.
Relying on Christ’s Victory in Lent
By | | Celebrate, Spiritual Growth | ascetic life, Galatians 2:20, Lent, Text
Lent is arguably a microcosm of the whole ascetic life. It is a clear and obvious appropriation of the victory of Christ over sin and temptation in the life of the Church and the life of the Christian.
Lent Fasting for a Changed Heart
By Ron+ McCrary | | Celebrate, Spiritual Growth | fasting, Lent, Matthew 6:1, Matthew 6:16-18, Text
While there are many purposes for fasting found in the Bible, the primary purpose of Lenten fasting is learning to depend more fully upon God and trust him to provide for us in every way. We are learning to discipline our desires and not to be ruled by them.
For You This Christmas
By Mark+ Browne | | Celebrate, Spiritual Growth | Christmas, Text
Within Mary's womb was the one whom the universe could not contain. The embryo she was to name “Jesus” was God's perfect and only way for humanity’s rescue. It is here, in this wondrous thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound, unfathomable depths of God’s revelation to humanity are found. God became man!
Giving thanks, even now
By +Philip Jones | | Spiritual Growth | struggle, thanks, thanksgiving, Video
We can give thanks even in difficult times through the General Thanksgiving in the Book of Common Prayer.
The Value of Prophetic Ministry
By David+ Larlee | | Alpha, Prophecy, Spirit, Spiritual Growth | 1 Corinthians 14:25, Jeremiah 29:11, John 3:17, Text
When we use the gift of prophecy to mine the treasure inside of someone made in the image of God, a major shift begins to take place in him or her. That person is introduced to a heavenly perspective on their life.