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Wanderings

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Giving Thanks Makes Life Simpler

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The Real Power of Spiritual Practices

Two Practices for Spiritual Growth:

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Resilience for Pastors

Get Ready to Do Good Work Today

Communities of Hope and Life

A Prayer Challenge

THE REBIRTH OF TABLE-CENTERED COMMUNITY

The Surprising Saint of Hippo

Healthy Models for Pastors and Churches

It's a Non-Doing Day

Sabbathing

What I'm Learning about Decluttering Life by Helping Create a Walking Trail

Transformative Practices

Sunday

A Feast of Presence

The Surprising Saint of Hippo

Sabbath Day

My Heart Breaks for Pastors

Overwhelmed with Stuff

The Spiritual Practices of Jesus

A Prayer for Cleansing

The Feast of Silence

Faith Under Fire

The Surprising Saint of Hippo

3 Questions

A Sabbath Day

Fasting and Voting

Simplicity: A Life of Surprising Abundance

Spiritual Disciplines and Desire

This Week

A Prayer for A Retrieval of Biblical Standards

God Is Calling His People Back to Worship

Introducing Friday Stories

A Sabbath Day

A Pastor's Guide to Loving God

What October 8, 2023, Revealed about the American Soul

Craving a Simpler Life

From Routine to Restoration

A Prayer for Those Suffering from Hurricane Helene

Preparing to Feast

A Recipe, a Song, and a Spiritual Formation Lab

Thoughts While Wandering: Walking, Psalm 91, Digital Fasts, and Life

The Trailhead: The Discovery of Hunger for God

Spacious Living: Space Enough for Trust

Hope: Part 4 of 4

The World Is Turning in the Wrong Direction

Life Is Designed to Flop without Humility

The Most Hopeful and Encouraging Book in the Bible

Hope

Hope

Hope

The Digital Fast

A Doctor of Ministry Degree

A Prayer for Communal Worship

A Doctor of Ministry Degree: How does a DMin degree compare to a PhD degree?

A Doctor of Ministry Degree

Deeper Roots and a Deeper Life

Two Books

A Definition of Spiritual Formation

Spiritual Growth

Jesus: The Portrait Artist

An Experiment in Simplicity

Thoughts While Wandering: When Babies Were Worth Nothing More than a Free Hotdog

I am thankful I was in worship today

The Language of Prayer

Centering Words: A Four-Minute Centering Practice

My Why

"Live Simply" for Pastors

A “Live Simply” Opportunity

An Old Article by a Trusted Guide

A Provocative Proposal: A Digital Fast

Recovering a Simpler Life

Centering Words: A 4-Minute Centering Practice

First-Day Prayers

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worship

A Pause to Restore Purpose

A Selah Pause

Centering Words: A 4-Minute Centering Practice

Recovering a Good Cup of Tea

Discovering Selah

Preparing for Sunday Worship

Thoughts while Wandering: The Meaning of Old Words Are Worth Preserving

Thoughts while Wandering: The Meaning of Old Words Are Worth Preserving

Thoughts while Wandering: An Attitude that Heals a Broken Nation

Thoughts While Wandering: Steps That Heal a Broken Nation

Hearing the Speaking God

First-Day Prayers

Come Jesus Come

What Reminds People of Jesus

Confessional Speech: On Behalf of a Culture

Centering Words: A 4-Minute Centering Practice

Humility: The Path Less Traveled

The Delicious Practice of "Doing Nothing"

First-Day Prayers

Prepare Me to Rejoice Tomorrow in Your Worship

Space for Gratitude

Three Prayers for Our Nation

Centering Words: A 4-Minute Centering Practice

Becoming Fluent in Spiritual Transformation Language

Light Will Shine in the Last Half of 2024

First-Day Prayers

Why Worship

Thoughts While Wandering: Israel's Gettysburg Address

How to Add Selah to Reading Scripture

Centering Words: A 4-Minute Centering Practice

Recovering Rest

Another Challenge to Religious Freedom

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worship

Can Christians Still Use the Word, "Evangelical?"

A Powerful Spiritual Formation Word: Upward

A Powerful Spiritual Formation Word: Upward

Rethinking Size...

Truth

A Shout-Out for Brave Spiritual Leaders

Blessed Sunday

Normandy

A Saturday Blessing for Worship

Job Opening: Watchmen (and Women) on the Wall

Unlocking Resilience: The Sabbath’s Role in Spiritual Formation

Book of the Day

Hope

An Intro to the Deeper Life

A Blessing for Worship

Good Days Are Worth Celebrating

On the Edge of a Change

Holy Spirit Substitutions

Holy Spirit Substitutions

Retrieving the Real Holy Trinity: Trinity Sunday

The Transformer

Only with the Holy Spirit

The Realm of the Holy Spirit

Connecting the Dots

Immortality

Friendship with the Holy Spirit

How to Read a Book in the Bible for the Sake of Your Soul

God Claims the Heart

Happy Birthday!

How to Pray

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worship

Colossians: The Great Spiritual Growth Manual

Why a Christian Spiritual Formation Podcast

A Definition of Spiritual Formation

Hunger for Mercy

A Hunger for Mercy

The Struggle with Me

Why a Spiritual Formation Newsletter and Podcast

Heartfelt Gratefulness

The Trailhead Podcast: Shh! Quiet Prayer

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worship

Shh! Quiet Prayer

The Trailhead Podcast: A Spiritual Formation Lab

Thoughts while Wandering: Joseph Your Brother (Genesis 45:4)

Firsts are Important

A Spiritual Formation Lab in Prayer

Prayer Wrestling

A Spiritual Formation Lab on Gratitude

Heartfelt Gratefulness

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worship

Spiritual Wrestling Matches, Part One

Where Words Come From

Where Words Come From

Freedom of Speech

Covered in Dust from Your Rabbi’s Sandals

Hearing — and Understanding — God’s Plan

The Encourager

The Explosive Power of Communal Worship

Thoughts While Wandering: The Power of Simpler Living

Spiritual Maturity

Selah: A Daily Mini-Sabbath

Spiritual Formation Book Review

The Trailhead Podcast: Selah--The Adventure of a Simpler Life

Selah: The Adventure of a Simpler Life

Christ in us

Experimental Spirituality

Next-Gen Steps for the Trailhead Podcast and Compass Newsletter

How I Found Spiritual Formation...

Thoughts While Wandering

How to Know God’s Word

Come, Follow Me

A One-Minute Centering Prayer for Spiritual Trekkers

The Trekker's One-Minute Centering Prayer

Two Sentences I Found

Thin Places

A "Thin Place" Prayer

Thin Places

Thin Places

Ears to Hear the Speaking Voice of God

The Listening Stream of Christian Spirituality

Thoughts While Wandering

A Conversation about Spiritual Formation and Sabbath-Keeping

The Spiritual Practice of Sabbathing and Rest

Holy Saturday

I Am a Card-Carrying Member of an Old Club

An Invitation to Join an Old Club

Thin Places

Two Charcoal Fires

Thoughts While Wandering

Sabbath: Liberty or Legalism

I Am

Witnesses

The Helper

Life in Another World

Friends of Jesus!

Proof of Love

Thoughts While Wandering

Abide...Again and Again and Again

Jesus' Vindication

Jesus' Last Will and Testament

Another Jesus Question

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worship

Love Others

Christian Centering Practices

The Greater One

The Example

A Jesus Question

Thoughts while Wandering

Table-Flipping

A Good Cleansing

Table-Flipping

Watch for the King

One-Minute Centering Prayer

One-Minute Centering Prayer

One-Minute Centering Prayer

Counter-Culture Simplicity

One-Minute Centering Exercise

Inside-Out Simplicity

Slow Living

One-Minute Centering Exercise

One-Minute Centering Exercise

Books of Prayer

One-Minute Centering Exercise

One-Minute Centering Exercise

Thoughts while Wandering: Tom Schaller, Meet the Apostle Paul

One-Minute Centering Exercise

One-Minute Centering Exercise

One-Minute Centering Exercise

Spiritual Formation for Leaders

How to Create Your Centering Experience

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worshp

Rediscovering Sabbath

One-Minute Centering Exercise

Let's Pray

I Was Wrong

Let's Pray

Rediscovering Sabbath

Let's Pray

Let's Pray.

A First-Day Prayer

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worship

Meet Bailey and Her Journey through Loss

An Ache for God

Thoughts While Wandering: Reclaiming a Spiritual Wave of Antiracism

Free to Rest

Spiritual Centering Retreat

A Jesus Way: Fasting

Spiritual Growth

Thoughts While Wandering: The Uneducation of Our Souls

Selah

Thinking about Spiritual Formation

What's Coming This Week on Compass

The First Prayer

A Saturday Blessing for Sunday Worship

Better Baked than Microwaved!

Simpler Living and Spiritual Queries Podcast

Spiritual Practice--Day 2: "Seeing" The Story

Thoughts While Wandering

A Reading Guide for "A Testament of Devotion"

Spiritual Practice: "Seeing" the Story

No Chat Today

A Salvation Celebration Like No Other

The Trailhead: A Spiritual Formation Podcast

Thoughts while Wandering

A Reading Guide for A Testament of Devotion

Spiritual Practice: Hearing “the Voice”

Courage Sunday

The Fellowship of the Blessed Community

Conversational Preaching, Not "Preachy" Preaching

Transcript of Chapter Three Podcast

When Strip Clubs Were Open and Churches Shuttered

A Reading Guide for A Testament of Devotion

Thoughts about Worship Response

Courage Sunday

We Never Come Alone

Hearts and Real Estate

The Trailhead: A Spiritual Formation Podcast

Wanderings

A Reading Guide for A Testament of Devotion

Spiritual Practice: Do Nothing

Thoughts about Worship

A Testament of Devotio Chat Today at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time Zone

The Trailhead Podcast

Wanderings

A Reading Guide for A Testament of Devotion

Some Reasons to Read the Spiritual Classics