Meditative Traditions in Christian Spirituality
Christogram (labarum) with Jesus Prayer in Romanian. Jesus Prayer in Romanian Doamne Iisuse Hristoase, Fiul lui Dumnezeu, miluieste-ma pe mine pacatosul. English translation Lord Jesus Christ, Son of...
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God has a plan for you, a word for you, a future for you. God has something great in store for you. You are not too old to believe and imagine. There have been people in their seventies, eighties, and...
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Cover of Motovilov’s book Serafim Talk On the Purpose of the Christian Life shows how the event is usually depicted in the modern icon tradition (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Mick Turner These days there...
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English: Scroll of the Book of Proverbs (Photo credit: Wikipedia) God has a purpose for each of us, a role to play in His cosmic drama of redemption for a lost world. Your role will be different from...
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Brian McLaren (Photo credit: stewartcutler) In a wild world like ours, your character, left untended, will become a stale room, an obnoxious child, a vacant lot filled with thorns, weeds, broken...
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English: Orthodox Church of Holy Spirit in Medzilaborce, Slovakia Polski: Cerkiew Świętego Ducha w Medzilaborce, Słowacja Slovenčina: Pravoslávny chrám Svätého Ducha v Medzilaborcach (Photo credit:...
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English: Icon of Jesus Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What if we decided that to the best of our ability, we would no longer live a hypocritical, halfhearted Christianity that results in unbelief and...
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English: the first of the Epistles to the Colossians (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Mick Turner The contemporary church is in the midst of radical change and it is hard to predict just what the Body of...
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Words (Photo credit: sirwiseowl) By faith, call those things that are divine truth in the spiritual realm into being in the natural realm. It is not a magic formula or wishful thinking. It is operating...
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Cover via Amazon Mick Turner (Continued from Part One) It seems that over the last couple of centuries the church has become increasingly less “Christ-centered” and in doing so, has completely lost its...
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Cover via Amazon So the great issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or by culture, are identified as “Christians” will become disciples –...
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English: US Birth Rates from 1909-2008. The red segment is known as the Baby Boomer period. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Mick Turner I had the good fortune of spending most of my formative childhood years...
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Image from the Book of Kells, a 1200 year old book. Category:Illuminated manuscript images (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I believe that we have reduced the gospel from a dynamic and beautiful symphony of...
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Inner light (Photo credit: Colin 30d) Mick Turner (This article was initially published back in 2008. Recently, I have received several requests to post it on LifeBrook). The greatest tragedy in life...
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Christ icon in Taizé (Photo credit: lgambett) Set your eyes beyond the stratosphere and see a Christ who confounds the mind. This Christ is – present tense – the visible image of the invisible God....
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Evangelistar von Speyer, um 1220 Manuscript in the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe, Germany Cod. Bruchsal 1, Bl. 1v Shows Christ in vesica shape surrounded by the “animal” symbols of the four...
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Picture of Jesus with American flag (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Almost unknowingly, we all have a tendency to redefine Christianity according to our own tastes, preferences, church traditions, and...
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The front side (recto) of Papyrus 1, a New Testament manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. Most likely originated in Egypt. Also part of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri (P. oxy. 2) Currently housed in: (Photo...
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Frank Damazio @ Tuesday’s 4:30pm Rally (Photo credit: James Kirsop) God’s blessings for us are limited only by ourselves – not by His resources, power, or willingness to give. Refuse any obstacle,...
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Cover via Amazon The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes time, like having a friend takes time. It is a simple...
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