by The Practice Church | Dec 16, 2014 | Sunday Reflections
This is the irrational season when love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason there’d have been no room for the child. (Madeleine L’engle) It’s difficult to come up with words to describe last night’s gathering. The music reached deeply into us,...
by The Practice Church | Dec 8, 2014 | Sunday Reflections
I woke up this morning with the refrain we sang last night on my tongue: Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. I have been singing or humming it for several hours now. I think it’s because it seems like that’s really what our world needs and what I need. When we...
by The Practice Church | Nov 17, 2014 | Sunday Reflections
Practicing Gratitude and Trust Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. – 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Last night we deepened our understanding of what it means to be thankful. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that we...
by The Practice Church | Nov 10, 2014 | Sunday Reflections
Last night we confronted a question together that many of us have been wrestling with alone since Mark Scandrette’s teaching last week: What do we do with the resistance that naturally rises up in us when we hear Christ’s invitation into the life that is truly life?...
by The Practice Church | Nov 3, 2014 | Sunday Reflections
Simplicity is choosing to leverage time, money, talents and possessions toward what matters most. – Mark Scandrette I left our gathering last night with an overwhelming sense that God holds everything together and I don’t have to. I’m not totally sure why;...
by The Practice Church | Oct 20, 2014 | Sunday Reflections
What a rich gathering we had last night. Everything from our coffee and dessert community time, to raising our hands in worship as we sang Let it Rise, to hearing from each other about the struggle and the beauty of practicing Sabbath, to learning about Shabbat (the...
