Each month my small group choses a different spiritual practice to try out. Some months we go traditional and do things like meditation or fasting. Other months we do spiritual practices outside the traditional church practices like celebration (we threw a big party together). This month we have chosen to practice the daily office together, [...]
September 10, 2009
Categories: disciplines . . Author: Maria . Comments: 1 Comment
Our canvas (church small-group) has picked up a discipline that it practiced for a while before I joined… telling stories. The past few weeks we have devoted our group time to letting new(er) members of the community (including myself) share their stories. Each time we gathered we shared a meal and then circled all 18 [...]
January 31, 2009
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Every month my canvas group (small-group) from my church, Kairos, picks a different spiritual discipline to practice together. In the few months we have been part of the church we have done routine (rule-of-life), fasting, celebration (we threw one awesome “Advent-Eve Party”) and now we’re doing simplicity. In an effort to blog more, and just [...]
December 16, 2008
Categories: disciplines . . Author: Maria . Comments: 1 Comment