In this sermon, pastor Peter Haas shares a simple analogy to help convey the meaning of Christmas. © 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, Service, Nature, and especially the writings of Thomas Keating, and [...]
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By Thom Temperli As constant as greed has been in human history, its collective human face has been very publically exposed in recent years. If you had to name your top five greediest people or companies, I’m sure it wouldn’t take long to do. That unchecked greed, even in our free market democracy, is no [...]
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By Thom Temperli A few weeks ago a middle-aged man, a former pastor approached me with great, forceful enthusiasm about ideas that he had, and was looking for my help to turn these ideas into reality. More accurately, he was looking for the resources that our church could give him to help him realize his idea. We [...]
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Beloved Jesus Christ: Shocked by the difficulties of life that arise seemingly without any visible cause, we begin our search for a way out. Under your mercy, the accumulation of failures becomes our best teacher, showing us how to live more free. In your resurrection, we find the possibility of warding off the harmful [...]
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By Thom Tempereli If I met God, would I like Him (or Her, or It, or Them)? If I really knew who God was, as opposed to having to go on what everyone who claims to speak for him (something I’m afraid I have often done), would I actually want to serve that God? This [...]
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By Thom Temperli I enter the blogosphere as a beginner in the Way of Christ, as a person who is just starting to learn what it means to be a human being. I write as a Christian pastor frustrated with the lack of basic spiritual understanding in my culture, my religion and myself. I write [...]
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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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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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Beloved Light of the World: Prepare us to both see and follow your Way of love in stillness as we surrender through prayer into the space of silent grace. Amen. Click here to listen or download the MP3 format: Advent Daily Prayer for Thursday, December 2, 2010 © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved.
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Praise be to the holy one who lights upon our hearts the invitation that draws us home from the hot then cold wanderings of our aimless ways. We are being invited by Love. Some hear and gather, streaming into the banquet hall of prayer. We come from Failure City to the East. From Desperation Village [...]
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