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A Discernment Prayer to Know God’s Will (John 17)

Jesus' John 17 prayer can used as a discernment prayer for Christian leaders and groups. This tool frames Jesus' petitions as six key discernment questions. If we make Jesus' holy prayer our prayer then we're sure to get in sync with God's will!

Secure and Insecure Attachment Styles

We love the picture of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus absorbed in a flood of divine love. Here in the Holy Family God is showing…

Spiritual Friendship: Aelred and Ivo’s Example

We all long for soul talk and spiritual friendship. To feel fully alive we need to participate in personal relationships that are based in empathy and draw us…

Transforming Your Social Dimension

This is an updated version of a Bible study I did in 2006 on the role of the social part of the human being in spiritual…

I Had Too Many Balls to Hit!

We just took our youngest child to college and arrived home to an empty nest. I said to Bill, “I feel like a baseball batter…

A Hidden Pastor Came Into the Light

“If we walk in the light, as [God] is in the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his…

Stay in the Shadow of the Great Tree

Hiking in a remote forest Lake Arrowhead, CA a few days ago I saw a great pine tree that’s over 100 years old and just…

Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship

This sample reading log on Spiritual Friendship by Aelred of Rievaulx is like the ones that participants complete in our Soul Shepherding TLC program. (A reading log is a…