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Category Archives: Soul Care

Sermon Listening for Transformation

I’ve been thinking recently about how to listen to sermons, and I imagine that both we and our young people struggle with this, too. I grew up in a tradition that valued expositional, verse-by-verse, 45-minute long preaching. These sermons were long but pretty easy to follow. There was information being handed out, so it was [...]

Fine Tuning

Read this article.
“I heard an interview with Peter O’Toole. He had a new movie last year. In the film he quotes a Shakespearian sonnet. The interviewer asked him if he knew that sonnet by heart and he said “I know all of them my dear.” Apparently he keeps a book of the sonnets by [...]

Slowing Down

Check out this article from Mark Yaconelli
Author and former pastor Wayne Muller once said that in the United States,
illness has become our Sabbath. When a friend of mine was diagnosed with
brain cancer at 46, time suddenly became a precious gift to her. She stopped wearing a watch. She spent mornings lying in the sun and [...]

Fall Retreat(s) and trying times…

Hey folks, well, its that time of year, and I’m looking to book the fall youth retreat at Indian Creek Camp, the venue where we’ve had it the past couple of years.  The dates they have available that are looking good for them are October 10-12, which is about the same weekend as it has [...]