by The Practice Church | Dec 9, 2018 | 2018
What a wonderful night! Sam guided us with an invitation to open our hearts to the mysteries of Advent. “Great is the mystery of Advent, Christ has come, Christ is with us, and Christ will come again.” The thread holding these three Advents together is the gift of...
by The Practice Church | Dec 2, 2018 | 2018
It was good to be back with you in community Sunday night and lean into the first week of Advent. Our night began with a brief update and prayer. This has been a challenging season for the community of Willow Creek as some hard decisions have been made about the 2019...
by The Practice Church | Nov 18, 2018 | 2018
It was so great to have Keri Wyatt Kent guide us with an invitation into a simple Sabbath rhythm. Keri did a fantastic job outlining the scriptural invitation of Sabbath as a gift to be opened each week. The question I keep coming back to is whether we can ever...
by The Practice Church | Nov 11, 2018 | 2018
What a gift it was to have Casey Tygrett with us Sunday night! Casey guided us beautifully through a perspective on Sabbath that I had never experienced before. “We don’t practice Sabbath because we need a break;” Casey said, “we practice Sabbath because we are free.”...
by The Practice Church | Oct 28, 2018 | 2018
Last night we continued exploring practices of listening to God in prayer. We see in scripture that God speaks, and the normative experience of those who follow God is they will hear the Lord. There are many ways of listening to God in prayer, and last night we...
by The Practice Church | Oct 21, 2018 | 2018
What a joy it was to have Father Michael with us last night! Father Michael managed to both introduce the Examen to those of us unfamiliar with it, and take those who were familiar more deeply into its practice. A holy habit of practicing the Examen, Father Michael...