Apr 25, 2012 | Abandonment, Community, Discipleship, Experiential Teaching & Facilitation, Solitude, Spiritual Formation, Wilderness Bible Studies
Abandonment is Critical to Spiritual Formation & the Wilderness Provides Tremendous Space to Embrace It In my earlier post, It’s not “If”, but “When” to Abandon Ship | A Reflection on Abandonment, we took an honest look at the irony...
Apr 25, 2012 | Abandonment, Discipleship, Experiential Teaching & Facilitation, Leadership Skills, Solitude, Spiritual Formation, Wilderness Bible Studies
Abandonment. Is it good or bad? Or both? Abandonment can be good or bad. It can be courageous or despicable. It can be right or wrong. Abandonment is a bad thing if we abandon someone in his or her time of need, or if we abandon a project before completing it. Yet on...
Apr 25, 2012 | Awareness, Experiential Teaching & Facilitation, Solitude, Teachable Moments, Wilderness Bible Studies
Each of our hearts is an open book to Christ. And because His aim is to restore our hearts to their original design, He continually asks us questions to reveal the true nature of our heart. This is the process of spiritual formation. The question is, do we cooperate...
Apr 24, 2012 | Experiential Teaching & Facilitation, Leadership Skills, Teachable Moments, Wilderness Bible Studies
Reading Mark 2:18-22 is a window into what happens to one’s soul when religious duty becomes the goal rather than open-hearted relationship with the Heavenly Father. In this passage we see 1) the priority of Jesus’ table fellowship with sinners, and 2) the...
Apr 23, 2012 | Evangelism, Faith, Mission, Wilderness Bible Studies
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:20) Faith that...
