Faith

Lectio Divina is Latin for divine reading, spiritual reading, or “holy reading,” and represents a traditional Christian practice.
The Journey is hosting a Lectio Experience Sunday Night

November 1, 2009 at The Journey office from 6:00 - 7:15pm which will be transformed with some candles, pillows, and rugs for people to fully engage. Please be prepared with a Bible, and open heart, and a willingness to try this experience. We will end our night with communion together.

(3801-A Charter Park Court, San Jose, CA 95136)

I would be curious to hear some of your responses to the change of being willing to give something up for the month. Kellie and I have decided to be better stewards of our money and have decide to give up eating out for this month. What are you going to give up or thinking about giving up for this month and why?

Lectico Divina Experience
Lectio Divina is Latin for divine reading, spiritual reading, or “holy reading,” and represents a tradi-
tional Christian practice of prayer and scriptural reading intended to engender communion with the Triune God and to increase in the knowledge of God’s Word. It is a way of praying with Scripture that calls one to study, ponder, listen and, finally, pray and even sing and rejoice from God’s Word, within
the soul.

This guy is giving away FREE COPIES of a book called Don’t Stop Believing. Looks great for Christians with a postmodern bent but have conservative theology. If that’s you, check it out!

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Read a story this morning titled “Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom” . This frustrates me on two levels:

1) first, how stories like this make christians seem like weirdos
2) second, how the media sees this as a story at all. Well, y! at least.

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Newsweek published an article called . Check it out, and weigh in on what you think:

• What is your reaction to this article?
• Do you think “the end” as described is a bad? good? neither?
• Does the article fill you with fear, or with hope?
• Europe is not America, but what lessons can we learn from European Christianity?
• Is post-Christian culture a threat? To whom?
• Is post-modern, post-Western culture a threat? To whom?

“A NEW fact about Jesus Christ”, “666 finally explained” and “The Roots of the Middle East” on:

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Wisdom for Teens http://groups.google.com/group/TeenAnswers
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Today in church we talked about the recent beliefs survey and who we thinks Jesus is. The general consensus was that Jesus is “A human ‘incarnation’ of God himself—Jesus is divine and is God.” I believe this as well but am getting hung up on the God/Jesus distinction. Why the different names? Why don’t we just say we worship God, and leave it at that, since Jesus=God? Is this just an artifact of our efforts to distinguish ourselves from Christians who don’t believe Jesus=God?

What was it like for you to take the “Beliefs Survey?” We would like to have some open discussion about the personal reactions each of us might have to some of those direct challenging questions.

After having a rather intensive knee surgery on July 3rd, God has taught me a HUGE lesson in surrender…sometimes I hate it when God gives me exactly what I ask for.

I certainly expected that the doctor didn’t know what he was talking about and that I would bounce right back from this surgery and be up on my feet and running around within a few weeks. More than a month was a ridiculous thought to me, much less three to six months.