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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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Is There More to Life?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Contemplative Christianity

By Thom Temperli  Count me as an idealist.  I actually tend to believe that there is a better way to do most things, that things can be balanced and optimized, even if they can’t be perfected.   (The perfection idea was hard to let go of, though.) This idealism tends to spill over into all aspects [...]

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Daily Prayer for Monday of Holy Week, April 18, 2011

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Contemplative Christianity

We begin this Holy Week in the name of surrender to the holy one of love, our Lord and Life-Source Jesus Christ. We begin this Holy Week in the hope of personal awakening to the peace of God that brings Christ close in and through each of us gathered together in silence and prayer, sealing upon [...]

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Daily Prayer-Reflection for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Contemplative Christianity

 And now O God of perfect timing, enter into each of our hearts and find the city-center in us ready to receive and surrender to your love in its embodied form and in its eternal formlessness . We have been preparing for the entrance of your Word through this Lenten Journey and now we feel [...]

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A Day Before Palm-Waving: Daily Lenten Prayer-Reflection for Saturday, April 16, 2011

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Contemplative Christianity

Prepare us to feel the wound of love through our shouts of hosanna as we find in our own hearts the path laden with good intentions as well as the reality of how quickly we can turn and harden the affections of our heart and change the opinions of our mind. From “hosanna” to “crucify” is [...]

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Daily Lenten Prayer for Friday, March 25, 2011

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Contemplative Christianity

Jesus Christ, our light, life and love: You have shown us the Way of surrender to self. Help each of us to release our demands for life to be different. In total honesty, we will accept life as it occurs today, neither thinking we deserve more nor feeling guilty for all we have been given. [...]

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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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Advent Daily Prayer for Saturday, December 4, 2010

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

  O God: May our words reveal the presence of love. May our understanding deepen through silence.  Expand the meaning of each word of scripture so that it leads us to the fullness of wisdom enlightening our being and casting illumination upon our present and future way of living. Your work in us and our [...]

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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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