meditation

Prayer Tips: Keeping Attentive

Keith Kauffman
Aug 25, 2021
They had one job to do: stay awake and pray. Peter, James, and John, often like the rest of us, failed to accomplish the one simple task they had. Christ took his most trusted inner apostolic circle deeper into the garden with Him as He went a stone’s throw further to spend time in prayer. He...

Comfort on the Wall

Jeffrey Stivason
Jun 12, 2021
It is said that when Martin Luther heard of his father’s death he took his Psalter and retreated to his room and was not seen the rest of the day. This news came to the great German while he was at the Castle Coburg during the Diet of Augsburg. We may wonder what such a great man did in the...

Praying Through the Scriptures: Deuteronomy 3

Chad Van Dixhoorn
Nov 4, 2016
Over the years it has been my practice, learned from others, to offer up praises and petitions framed by a passage of Scripture. Some of these passages were read in preparation for preaching, others offered material for meditation in daily devotion; still others were plundered specifically for the...

'Mindfulness' or the mind of Christ

Joseph Boot
Jan 8, 2015
The singularly brilliant Christian apologist of the seventeenth century, Blaise Pascal, noted the existential reality that the human condition was one of inconstancy, boredom and anxiety . For him, the only real cure was made known in history by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and was not...

'Mindfulness' or the mind of Christ

Joseph Boot
Jan 8, 2015
The singularly brilliant Christian apologist of the seventeenth century, Blaise Pascal, noted the existential reality that the human condition was one of inconstancy, boredom and anxiety . For him, the only real cure was made known in history by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and was not...