Author: Adam

  • Lent 3 Prayer

    I mentioned that we were using Basilea Schlink’s book, You Will Never Be the Same, as guide during Lent.  Each chapter focuses on a different sin with Sister Schlink offering counsel, what she describes as a “prescription”, for that sin.  Her penetrating words both convict and cleanse.  Each week we read a different chapter and…

  • Lenten Prayers

    Each week of Lent we are focusing on a different chapter from Baselia Schlink’s book, You Will Never Be the Same.  On Mondays at dinner we take our meal in silence and then read together a chapter from Baselia’s book.  Through the rest of the week we pray a special prayer for grace at the…

  • Why Lent?

    “Naive Christians, the kind who want to freely release the goodness within them and trust their hearts to lead them aright, do not want to enter the battle raging in their souls. They have no appetite for identifying and destroying the enemy. Spiritual warfare, they hope, will involve only light skirmishes, never a fight-till-someone-dies conflict.”…

  • True Confessions

    One of the disciplines encouraged during Lent is confession, confession of who we really are in order to find Christ.  We learn to embrace the truth about ourselves so we can find the Truth and Life.  According to several dictionaries, three words capture the meaning of confession: acknowledgement (owning to something), admission (allowing access), and…

  • Art Class Monochromatic Drawings

    Our art classes have been doing monochromatic drawings as of late. The tendency is to think of monochromatic drawings as being pencil or pen drawings – a black medium on white paper. However, monochromatic drawings can also consist of black and white pencil on brown paper, or even white pencil on black paper; which the…

  • Ecclesiology and Mission

    David Fitch, in a recent interview, made this statement regarding the mission of the Church: “…the church is the epistemological foundation for doing ministry in the world.” Yes, yes, and YES! Sorry, got a little excited there.

  • Real Not Ideal

    Each year our community has a retreat where we spend even more time (than usual) with each other having fun and developing our relationships. We skied, sledded, watched movies, played games, and, of course, had meetings.  The theme for this year was “Real Not Ideal.”  We started off the weekend by watching, An Ideal Husband…

  • Civilization’s greatest need

    “The greatest need in modern civilization is the development of communities – true communities where the heart of God is home, where the humble and wise learn to shepherd those on the path behind them, where trusting strugglers lock arms with othes as together they journey on.”  Larry Crabb, Connecting

  • For Matt and Renee – Hope your birthday is out of this world!

    Matt and Renee

  • Spiritual Community = Safe to be Human

    What Christian community is and should look like has been the subject of countless blogs, books, small group discussions and sermons.   As a member of a fellowship living in intentional Christian community, I have often found the input from the wider conversation on community beneficial for the growth and development of our group.  One…