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Tim Cook and The Church of Conscious Harmony

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Contemplative Christianity

For the first time, Tim Cook’s sermons are now available in book form. You Hold Us While We Grow is an important celebration of Tim’s significant contribution to contemplative Christianity in our era. Timely, poignant and personal, Tim’s sermons and prayers are a witness to God’s love and unending desire for our personal healing, growth [...]

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Centering Toward Love: A Pastor’s Journey to Centering Prayer

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Contemplative Christianity

By Peter Traben Haas In college, I happened to work the early morning shift at the Crowell Hall Reception Desk at Moody Bible Institute in downtown Chicago. After I sorted the morning papers, I usually had some free time between 4:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. I would make a pot of coffee and sit in [...]

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Where Can We Find Spiritual Rest?

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Contemplative Christianity

My wife and I just returned from a five-day prayer retreat at St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. We journeyed there to make our first private prayer retreat at the Monastery’s exquisitely beautiful Retreat House. We stayed in the Atlas Martyrs Hermitage and besides praying in the soaring chapel and worshiping with the monks at 4:30 a.m., [...]

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Book Now Available – The God Who Is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church by Peter Traben Haas

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

WIth deep joy and gratitude, we are pleased to announce that Peter’s first book, The God Who Is Here is now available, just in time for Christmas. Order! Share! Let us know what you think. Now available at http://lanternbooks.com

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Models of Christian Prayer

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

In this seminar, pastor Peter Traben Haas explores two primary methods of prayer in the Christian tradition – the discursive and the contemplative, with special focus on the importance of Centering Prayer for our generation and the future of humankind. Click here to download or listen to the MP3 format: Models of Christian Prayer

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Part 5: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

  Misperception #5: Centering Prayer is “Eastern” Meditation.    Centering Prayer is not Eastern Meditation because it is a method of prayer formulated by several Roman Catholic Trappist Monks using principles drawn from the Catholic and Christian monastic and contemplative prayer tradition through such primary Christian writers as John of The Cross, the unknown author of the [...]

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Part 4: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

by Rev. Peter Traben Haas © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com.  All Rights Reserved. Misperception #4: Centering Prayer is about finding the Divine inside as your inner, true self. I can understand why some might think that Centering Prayer is about finding the Divine “inside.” Sometimes even the best intended teachers generate more confusion than clarity on this subject. [...]

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Part 3: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

  by Rev. Peter Traben Haas    © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com.   All Rights Reserved.          Misperception #3: Centering Prayer is dangerous.     Centering Prayer is not dangerous, but it can be disruptive. Centering Prayer is disruptive to the parts of us that wish to resist God’s love and grace. These parts, psychologically speaking, might be called the [...]

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Part 2: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

By Rev. Peter Traben Haas © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved. Misperception #2: Centering Prayer is not biblical. Centering Prayer is as biblical as you want it to be. While the exact words “Centering Prayer” do not appear anywhere in the Hebrew or Christian Scriptures, the motivation and purpose of Centering Prayer do. For example, [...]

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A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

August 19, 2010 By Rev. Peter Traben Haas © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved. While the contemplative disposition often prefers silence, sometimes it is useful to speak up. In the next several posts, I will respond to 5 major criticisms and misperceptions about Centering Prayer. I will then articulate 3 invitations to Centering Prayer. I [...]

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