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You Are My Beloved – A Sermon by Peter Traben Haas

In this sermon, Peter shares helpful insights for experiencing more of God’s  love from the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist as recorded in the Gospel of Mark.   © 2012. All Rights Reserved. ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Silence, Solitude, [...]

Green Avacado Paint and the Providence of God – A Sermon by Peter T. Haas

In this sermon preached at Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church, Peter Haas tells a hilarious story on himself to illustrate the important difference between living our lives under the law of accident or under the law of God’s providence.

Daily Prayer for Thursday, Feb 9, 2012

All thanks to God, Father, Son and Hoy Spirit, the Infinitely Compassionate and Most Merciful: And to Mary, sister, daughter and mother of Jesus, both Signs of God. And to our Mother Eve, and her husband Adam, and all other names who have paired the Body to bear forth the Family of God into its ever [...]

Daily Prayer Reflection for Wednesday Feb 08, 2012

Eternal and Loving God: External life attempts to smother the truth that human beings are the chosen beneficiaries of Your Love. Help us remember today. Help us wake up more fully to this truth. May we recognize, receive, and remember this essential truth of Your Love, despite all external evidence to the contrary. Your Love operates under [...]

Daily Reflection for Tuesday Feb 07, 2012

 “My soul yearns and pines for the courts of God. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.”  Psalm 84.3 Although difficult to remember in our culture, I remember that instinctual drives for survival, power and love do not solely define me. I am also created for union with God. Thus, I [...]

Daily Reflection for Monday Feb 06, 2012

“Whatever villages or towns or countryside Christ entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.”  Mark 6.55-56 Dark emotions arising in reaction to difficulties in life reveal that my inner landscape is full of [...]

Daily Prayers Resume Feb 6, While ContemplativeChristians.com is On Centering Prayer Retreat at St. Benedict’s Monastery

Daily Prayer for Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Beloved: Today I make the inward turn to silence to feel Your strength as the energy for all my doings and also my deepest rest. In Christ, Soul of my soul. Amen.   © 2012. All Rights Reserved. ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper into God’s love, celebrating the gifts of Centering [...]

Daily Prayer for Monday, January 23, 2012

God of all Creation: In your grace, our wrong turns become unexpected paths. Inside this grace enabled surrender, I find your love. Inside your love, I find silence. Inside the silence, You Are and I Am. Amen.   © 2012. All Rights Reserved. ContemplativeChristians.com is an online spiritual resource for the contemplative Christian journey deeper [...]

Daily Reflection for Friday Jan 20, 2012

“In the shadow of your wings I take refuge, till harm pass by.”  Psalm 57.2 Even as my life may be coming undone, I am held in the silence of God’ wings. I take courage knowing that this unloading of past hurts will pass into the lightness of future healing.   © 2012. All Rights [...]

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