This one’s gonna be hard for me to write about. Here is a statement about the Enthusiast Pathway from Gary Thomas’ Sacred Pathways: Enthusiasts enjoy a celebratory form of worship as well as many of the more supernatural forms of faith. People with this spiritual temperament like to let go and […]
Since I have become engrossed in these blogs on Worship Pathways (inspired by Gary Thomas’ book Sacred Pathways and our summer series at The Well), I have neglected the tea side of this blog. I thought maybe it was time to remedy that, and began to wonder: which of my personal teapots […]
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ — that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know. (John Keats) For the Intellectual Worshipper, the truth of God contains great beauty and leads to worship. The more they study Scripture, the deeper they delve into theology, the closer they […]
Was there any place so lovely as my Grandma’s Episcopal church? Its tall, pointed stained glass windows seemed to point to heaven for prayer. I sat with my Grandma in the old wooden pews and read aloud with her the responses and petitions from the Book of Common Prayer. At […]
I love to create Experiential Worship Stations, and I would love to teach you how to do so as well! Worship Stations are small installations in a larger space that create opportunities for individuals or small groups to interact with various concepts about God and His Word and to respond […]
“I can sit for hours just thinking about the love of God,” she said. I at first assumed she was talking about some kind of theological rumination, puzzling over the paradoxes and dimensions of Scriptural descriptions of God’s love. But no. She meant, literally, that she could become drawn up […]
We live in a noisy world. It is a world that would attempt to distract us with the baubles of material goods and acquisitions, and fill our minds and lives with busy activity. We live our lives with ear buds pouring sound in our ears, phones and computers dinging with […]
With Easter about a month away, it occurred to me that some of you may be putting together plans for Holy Week celebrations, and be looking for ideas. This is a set of worship stations using the Sensate Pathway to explore the Seven Last Words of Jesus that I have organized […]
This is Part 1 of a series on Sacred Pathways. To read the introduction to this series, click here on “Finding your Worship Pathway.” All of us experience our environment primarily via our five senses. Smell, touch, taste, sight, sound – these are our windows on the world. But how […]
It seems like every time I’m on Facebook, someone is posting another personality test: Which character from Lord of the Rings are you? Which classic author do you most resemble? Find out which Pokémon you are! I can find out which Bible character I am, which Disney character I am, […]
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