Walking Backward Into the Future

Walking Backward Into the Future

Walking Backward Into the Future In describing an Indigenous worldview, Dr. Terry LeBlanc (Mi’kmaq-Acadian), suggests that communities move into the future well by walking backward. The western worldview, which tends to be more linear and forward-focused, often...
Prayer Liturgy

Prayer Liturgy

Prayer Liturgy This liturgy for morning prayer includes the elements of confession, Lectio Divina, praying the psalms, centering prayer, petition, the Lord’s Prayer, and the...
Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer This practical guide to centering prayer includes a step-by-step explanation of the practice and short morning liturgy for individual or group...
Sermons

Sermons

Sermons Trained as an illustrator, I’ve always enjoyed shedding light on the meaning of texts. I’ve written and delivered hundreds of sermons in my work as pastor. An internet search will list several messages given at various churches over the years....
Group Discernment Process

Group Discernment Process

Group Discernment Process This comprehensive step-by-step guide for group discernment includes questions to help groups become aware of how power, biases, and social location affect the discernment...
Personal & Social Sin

Personal & Social Sin

Personal & Social Sin Due to the individualistic lens that many western evangelical Protestants read Scripture through, sin is most commonly understood to be a personal or interpersonal issue. However, the Bible includes examples of social or communal sin where...