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Daily Prayer for Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Holy Spirit of God: I belong to your Life. I wish to feel the strength of your connection to me in the silence. I wish to deepen this ancient belonging with the power of daily practices so to feel the risen life and peace of Christ in the cadence of my day. You connect me to the [...]

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.

Empathy and the Christian Life – A Sermon by Peter T. Haas

Click Here to Listen In this sermon Peter Haas uses the story of Naomi in the Book of Ruth to teach several insights about the call to compassion and empathy. © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved.

Christmas Eve Reflection for Saturday, December 24, 2011

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God…and the Word became flesh and dwelled among us.   John 1:1, 4          I only remember one Christmas Eve sermon from my childhood and youth. I was 17 years old and distinctly remember my pastor teaching [...]

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 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 [...]

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