NOVO: Teach us to Pray
By AMIA Communications | | Novo, Personal Story, Prayer, Spiritual Growth | family life, Novo, prayer
"I've tried to follow Jesus for 40 years, and [Novo] has been one of the tools that has opened up more in my faith and prayer life than anything else I've been a part of. But it's not just a teaching or a seminar. The emphasis is really on practicing and putting the things into practice." Hunter Allen
In Prayer: The Joy of the Lord is your Strength
By Guest | | Healing, Prayer, Spiritual Growth, Three Streams | deliverance, inner healing, prayer, prayer ministry
The foundation of our prayer ministry, as with all of the Anglican Mission in America, is three stream: Spirit, Scripture and Sacraments. In addition, three areas of emphasis emerge as we invite God’s presence: facilitating deliverance, deepening inner healing to allow healthy life choices and encouraging healthy community.
Immanuel Prayer: A tool for healing of the heart
By Guest | | Form, Healing, Personal Story, Prayer | Healing, prayer
God reminded me that He has been with me in every part of my journey—even the painful parts that leave me fearful and vulnerable.
Worship through Movement
By Guest | | Church Life, Prayer, Spiritual Growth | prayer, Worship
By Ruthie Buescher, Communications Coordinator for Grace Northridge Anglican Church Participants are sitting crossed-legged, some kneeling. A few are lying down on their backs or sides. One is standing, swaying a bit from side to side. Silence reigns, broken only by the occasional deep breath or cleared throat. This is a movement and prayer workshop,…
Quiet Days
By Guest | | Church Life, Prayer | prayer, rest, Sabbath, soaking prayer
Quiet Days are all about focusing on the love of God and receiving. We come into the presence of God in a posture of receiving, attuning our hearts to the heart of the Father and silencing the noise that drowns out the voice of the Good Shepherd.
Book Review: Prayer in the Night
By Guest | | Prayer, Resources, Spiritual Growth | BCP, book, book review, Compline, prayer, reading, review
By Carol Floch McColl, All Saints Dallas Liturgical worship, ancient rhythms and richly scripted prayers are a beautiful landscape of territory I have been exploring the last eight years. I arrived late to Anglicanism, having grown up in Christ in other Christian traditions—as did Tish Harrison Warren, an Anglican priest, award-winning author and the author…
Mental Illness, Prayer and Extravagant Grace
By Guest | | Evangelism and Outreach, Prayer | mental health, mental illness, prayer, Text
I can’t honestly say I am thankful for the mental illness that besets our son. But in full truthfulness I can say I am glad to have been forced to do battle with my theology of suffering and to test both its mettle and mine.
The Book of Common Prayer: A Unifying Resource
By Mark+ Walz | | Faith Formation, Prayer, Scripture, Spiritual Growth | Anglicanism, prayer, Scripture, Text, The Book of Common Prayer
As Thomas Cranmer, the principal author of the original BCP, said, “Our Book [of common prayer] … is an instrument of the Bible.” The Bible can be a daunting text to engage with; thankfully, the work of Cranmer and others like him was able to give us a beautiful book to structure our prayer and guide our daily interaction with God’s Word.