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Seeking balance

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Arghh! I just wish I could find the balance!” Yeah, me too. It seems like every area of my life is always changing and leaving me feeling unsteady. So long as I believe I can find this balance, I feel a vague sense of guilt for not having it.

Peter Gammell

March 19, 2024

Processing emotions means movement

Emotions are physical sensations, they activate and agitate our bodies. They are geared toward movement—toward action. Even before I consciously feel an emotion, my body is aware of it and is either preparing for action, or already moving in response.

Brandon Booth

February 12, 2024

Attention: A Hostage Situation

I am an “intermittent” hostage. Let me explain: The great tyrant of our day, Urgency, keeps violently stealing my attention and holding it at a kind of gun point. \Here I sit at my desk, content to work on my tasks for the day and, “BAM!” an overheard conversation plunges me into fear and worry over the world’s tragedies and heartache.

Peter Gammell

February 6, 2024

The Bottomless Ocean of God's Love

Hello friend, today I want to offer something a little different: a personal meditation I wrote (and a piece of art I created) upon re-reading a section of von Balthasar’s Prayer. The meditation follows the art.

Brandon Booth

January 30, 2024

Lost and found

“We all are born into the world looking for someone looking for us, and that we remain in this mode of searching for the rest of our lives.” - Curt Thompson ‍ I have a deep desire to know God. And not just know him, but for him to know me. For him to see me. My heart is touched by passages of scripture where God directly intervenes in someone’s life. John 1:43-51 is one such passage.

Peter Gammell

January 19, 2024

Technologies of Change

God has given me eternal life and he is bent on making me new, but now the question is, “how does God actually change me?” One thing I know, information alone doesn’t change me. Experience of God—his presence, love, and grace—does. Just knowing that God loves me doesn’t change my desires anymore than just knowing that heart surgery exists fixes my heart. I have to actually receive the surgery.

Brandon Booth

January 16, 2024

Seriously!? THAT is good news??

This time of the year reminds me of my limitations. I become aware of my failed attempts at developing healthy habits and I realize that even the habits I have successfully cultivated haven’t magically transformed me into the person I want to be. Yet I still feel the desire to mature and become more than I am right now! So, why don’t I?

Peter Gammell

January 9, 2024

Becoming or believing? Transcending the self-improvement obsession.

It’s the time for resolutions. Time to evaluate our progress over the last year and fix our wills on some S.M.A.R.T goals for the next year. Which is all well and good. May you find success in your goals! Here, however, I invite you to pause with me and consider a few deep questions: “how am I evaluating progress in life? What final goal am I seeking to achieve?”

Brandon Booth

January 1, 2024

Jesus dove into our world

Before we ever moved a finger to either help or hinder God from acting in our lives, he was moving towards us. Advent reminds us that Jesus dove into our world and that he still is diving into our lives to meet us with grace and acceptance.

Brandon Booth

December 13, 2023

We don't have to qualify to be in God's presence

God doesn't require us to be enough in order to be with him. Extending the welcome to others communicates this generous acceptance that God graces on all of us. This is the work that we do as a ministry, to create spaces where you are welcomed and where you are invited to know God's love.

Brandon Booth

December 13, 2023

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Faith

Seeking balance

Processing emotions means movement

Attention: A Hostage Situation

The Bottomless Ocean of God's Love

Lost and found

Technologies of Change

Seriously!? THAT is good news??

Becoming or believing? Transcending the self-improvement obsession.

Jesus dove into our world

We don't have to qualify to be in God's presence