Truly transformed?
The week’s first winner in our New Testament words contest is Harmony Wheeler, who asked about the word “transformation” in the New Testament: “How do we truly know God and The Spirit are transforming us? [...]
Sabbath posts
I'm guest blogging about Sabbath and its role in spiritual formation all over the place this week. It's been fun to connect with other writers and bloggers and create some new content. If you're interested [...]
In search of solitude
Do you ever spend time alone? On purpose? Maybe to pray, or just be still? The practice of solitude is can be life-changing. It's hard to understand until you do it, but when you get [...]
2009 goal: a deeper blog…
I don't believe in New Year's resolutions. They tend to be too vague. You know, "Get in shape" or "Lose weight" or "be more spiritual." I do believe, however, in setting goals. Goals are more [...]
Book winners!
During the next three months, Deep Breathing for the Soul is going to be giving away books every week, both here and through our Connecting e-newsletter. So invite your friends to visit the blog, and to subscribe [...]
Mark 4
Our neighborhood Bible study is continuing to read the book of Mark. A quick review of Mark 3, since I didn't post anything last week on this. One of the questions we keep asking is [...]
Nurturing creativity
Parenting teens is not easy. This afternoon both my kids took their window screens off of their windows, to let more air in, they said. They leaned the screens on the roof outside their windows. [...]