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Sabbath: Resting in Jesus

In 2012, Tim Kreider wrote an article in The New York Times entitled, “The ‘Busy’ Trap.” When a friend sent it to me and I read it for the first time, I remember feeling like Kreider was reading my mail. Of the many insights in his article, there were two in particular that resonated with …

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Silence & Solitude: Being with Jesus

By Pastor Brian Davis In Minneapolis, MN, you can go see and experience what was once the quietest room in the world.(1) It’s called the Orfield Anechoic Room, and it registers at -9 decibels. To put that in perspective, a normal room that we would consider “quiet” registers at around 30 decibels. The room is …

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Scripture & Prayer: Listening to and speaking with Jesus

By Pastor Brian Davis Parker Palmer recounts a time in the Upper Midwest, when at the first sign of a blizzard, a farmer would tie a rope from the back door of his house to the barn as a precaution. Everyone knew stories of farmers who had gotten caught in a sudden blizzard and had …

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Rule of Life: Ordering our lives to be with Jesus

One of my favorite quotes from Dallas Willard (which is saying something because I love so much of what he wrote!) comes from a conversation he had with a pastor named John Ortberg. Ortberg was pastoring a large, growing church in the late 90s but came to realize he was unhealthy in multiple parts of …

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Introduction to Spiritual Formation: Becoming Like Jesus

By Pastor Brian “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy …

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A Lament on Good Friday

By Pastor Brian As in all Star Wars movies, there’s a point in The Force Awakens when things aren’t looking good—when you begin to wonder if maybe this is the one time that the good guys aren’t going to win. When we came to that point while watching the movie as a family, my then 8 year-old son said, “I know …

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