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Lent 2017: Listening for the Heartbeat of God

Prayer: Forty Days of Practice

A WAY OF LOVING - INTERCESSION

April 9, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht

Jesus' command to love each other includes using our prayers as a method to love our neighbors. What can this look like? How do we love others through prayer? Come Sunday to explore and experience our final prayer practice of Lent: intercession, as we join Jesus in Jerusalem with palm branches and shouts of Hosanna!

TEARS - LAMENT

April 2, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht

Anger, sadness, disappointment. When we think of what "Christian folk" look like (in worship, in daily life) these are not often the expressions or emotions we associate with Jesus-followers. Shouldn't we be shiny and happy all the time? And yet. The Jesus story is a story of wholeness: including the full expression of all the things we feel and experience. This Sunday we experience the prayer practice of Lament.

TAMING OUR MONKEYS - MEDITATION

March 26, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht

LENT 4: Meditation We're busy. We know it. There is so much we don't get to - including paying attention to what's happening in our inner world. How do we slow down enough to hear the heartbeat of God in us and in our lives?

IN THE ABSENCE - FASTING

March 19, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht

We're consumers. On a fundamental level we need to consume food, water, nourishment. And we also consume goods, services, and activities. Curiously, the life of Jesus invites us to challenge and even give up the basics we consume in order to grow. How does making room in this way DO THAT?

IN OUR SKIN - EXERCISE

March 12, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht

Our Lenten practice of prayer will draw us into our skin - reflecting and experiencing what it means that prayer is deeply connected to our lived, physical lives.

HEARTBEAT OF GOD - JOURNALING

March 5, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht

Lent has begun! This Sunday we set ourselves toward Jesus' cross and resurrection beginning our journey of Lent together though prayer. We'll set our posture and begin our practices with journaling and listening for the heartbeat of God.

Ash Wednesday

March 1, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent which is the 40 days (excluding Sundays) leading up to Easter. Lent is traditionally a penitential season and we will be focusing our hearts and minds in the practice of prayer.

Series Trailer

February 28, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht

Lent, the six weeks spanning Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, a word that means “spring,” has for nearly two-thousand years been a season of spiritual spring-cleaning. A time to honestly examine who we are and who we are becoming. This season we're using a book on prayer by Justin McRoberts and Scott Ericsson called Prayer: Forty Days of Practice. Building on the language and the imagery from the prayer book, Justin and Scott have also designed a brand new performance piece with stories and insights from their own journeys and processes as practitioners. And they are bringing this new work, along with the book that is it’s heart, to Salt House on March 19th. So, pick up the book at Salt House. Begin the readings on Wednesday, March 1st and engage with the practice of prayer.