Formational Targets

Formational Targets: Listening (2024)

September 8, 2024 • Micah Witham

Micah revisits the Formational Target of Listening, the quiet internal work of the soul & heart to learn to hear, consider and act on the sound of God’s voice, and to discern the sound of my own voice and when it’s true or false.

Formational Targets: Liturgy

September 17, 2023 • Micah Witham

Awaken begins a new series that seeks to unpack what healthy spiritual formation looks like. We begin with the importance of liturgy. Liturgy is ceremony and ordered intention. It is the work of the people, accessing collective memory and doing something together. Liturgy consists of sacred times that are set apart for the people of God throughout the year.

Formational Targets: Listening

September 24, 2023 • Micah Witham • Deuteronomy 6

Micah unpacks the second of Awaken’s formational targets, listening. “Hear O Israel the lord thy God is one". What does the voice of God sound like and what does your own voice sound like? Spiritual maturity is holding both and paying attention to the many ways God can speak to us.

Formational Targets: Community

October 1, 2023 • Micah Witham

While many are at Covenant Pines this weekend for the church retreat, Micah continues our series on the formational targets and this week he discusses the importance of sacred community in our efforts to grow closer to God and one another.

Formational Targets: Learning

October 22, 2023 • Micah Witham

Micah brings us back to our formational targets series by emphasizing the importance of learning through the journey of faith. He highlights the significance of engaging different perspectives, understanding lenses that inform those perspectives, and maintaining a posture of curiosity in our day to day lives.

Formational Targets: Impact

October 29, 2023 • Micah Witham

Micah takes us through our next formational target - Impact. How do we choose to invest our time, energy, and resources individually and as a community? We’ve been entrusted with working and tending to one another and the world around us.

Formational Targets: Pilgrimage

November 5, 2023 • Micah Witham

Micah introduces pilgrimage as the final target in the Formational Targets series. This is an invitation to inhabit our lives in a particular way that includes awareness and intention about the spiritual journey happening all around us.

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