by The Practice Church | May 19, 2014 | Kingdom Practices
For the next two weeks, we are experimenting with a shared rule of life. (A Rule of Life is a structure or rhythm for our lives that enables us to pay attention to God in everything we do.) Over the last couple months, we’ve been exploring a number of...
by The Practice Church | May 12, 2014 | Kingdom Practices
Introduction. This week, we are practicing the presence of God. As we learned last night, the life of an active contemplative or a contemplative activist is a life of practicing the presence of God in every moment of living. It is a life of constant remembering and...
by The Practice Church | May 5, 2014 | Kingdom Practices
Introduction. This week we are practicing the prayer of examen. “Examen” means an examination of the conscience and was first written about as a spiritual practice by Ignatius of Loyola. The prayer of examen, as Father Michael Sparough taught us, is asking God to...
by The Practice Church | Apr 28, 2014 | Kingdom Practices
Introduction. This week we are practicing peacemaking. Jon Huckins, our guest speaker, and co-founder of the Global Immersion Project, defined peacemaking as the restoration of harmony between us and God, us and ourselves, us and each other, and us and creation. ...
by The Practice Church | Apr 21, 2014 | Kingdom Practices
Introduction We have been practicing as a community for six weeks now and have learned several different practices. This week, we would like to review the practices we have learned so far and suggest one way to practice them as an ongoing rhythm of life as followers...
by The Practice Church | Apr 14, 2014 | Kingdom Practices
Kingdom Practice Holy Week Introduction. This week is Holy Week, the last week of Jesus’ life before his resurrection. The stories told about this last week are so familiar to us that we can be tempted to skip them and rely on our memories. But as Dallas Willard...
