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We spent some time in stillness on Sunday night. In a style not too dissimilar to the Quaker ’sermon of silence’ Rach decided to devote the majority of our time together to provide a place where we could be still and concentrate on God.
In her introduction, Rach said that Psalm 46:10 had been in her […]

I wondered this week if I’d done our young people a disservice by teaching them about having quiet times with God.
Don’t misunderstand me here, I don’t think the quiet time is wrong, but in several discussions with young adults that had moved from full time study to full time work, the inability to have that […]

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘meditation’?
On Sunday night we had a variety of repsponses including ‘old men with beards’, ’silence’, Eastern religions’ and ‘incense’. Interestingly, things that are closely associated with Eastern or Transcendental meditation are those that most readily come to mind.
Eastern meditation is all […]

Continuing our series on the spiritual disciplines, but concluding the shorter series on prayer, Cam tackled the “Why Doesnt God Answer When I Pray?” question. Again, if I’m honest, there’s been numerous times when I’ve thought this. Answers have been hard to see and sometimes it seems like God isn’t listening.
Cam started of by describing […]

Good question!
I’d be lying if I said I’ve never asked this before. Sometimes it just seems to be a waste of time praying if God has already made up his mind about what is going to happen. Greg had the task of following his first installment on prayer with trying to answer this perplexing question…
Here’s […]

Greg shared with us on Sunday night the first part of an unexpected double-header in our series on prayer. The question this time was “Why should we pray?”.
Mel Gibson’s portrayal of an ex-clergyman in the movie “Signs” at one point cried, “I am not wasting another minute of my life by praying.” His wife had […]

On Sunday night we began an occasional series (ie on and off all year) on the spiritual disciplines or spiritual exercises. These disciplines are not secret, magical acts that a Christian can use to get closer to God, but instead a series of things we can do that put us in the best possible place […]

In 2006 we’re going to explore the spiritual disciplines as a community and setting up this blog is part of the preparation for that. the disciplines are not magical things that put us in touch with God, but practices that have been proven with time to put us in the best place possible for […]

My fellow Forge interns and I last night had a great time thinking through the issues of busy-ness and Sabbath rest in the context of missional communities.
We’re all busy. Emerging church, established church or otherwise - we all can fall too easily into the trap of being too busy. But is that wrong? Should we […]