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10 illustrations for sermon preparation
In the desert tradition, the abbas and ammas spoke of a monk who spent thirty years in solitary prayer. When a visitor finally sought him...
Thomas Merton once described a moment in his Louisville hermitage when he realized his hours of centering prayer had not made him holier than the...
In 1526, William Tyndale published his English New Testament, knowing it could cost him his life. But what strikes the careful reader is not just...
In the practice of centering prayer, there comes a moment Thomas Merton called "the point of nothingness" — that raw, undefended place where every title,...
In 1881, the great Princeton theologian B.B. Warfield — whose towering intellect defended the absolute inerrancy of Scripture against a generation of skeptics — did...
When Rachel Held Evans wrote about the kingdom of God, she often returned to the image of a table — who gets a seat, who...
In centering prayer, there comes a moment when every thought, every ambition, every carefully constructed image of ourselves dissolves into silence. Thomas Merton called this...
Rachel Held Evans once wrote that the Table is the great equalizer — the place where we stop performing and start belonging. Philippians 2:3-4 invites...
In 2018, a progressive congregation in Portland decided to partner with a local Indigenous community on a land acknowledgment project. The church leaders arrived at...
In a church basement in Portland, a collective of artists spent three months painting a mural depicting their neighborhood — the halal grocery, the queer...
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