From Garden to City

[...] God together in as beautiful a place as the Lincoln. Something that resonated with me from Pastor Mark’s message last night was his description of walking this prayer circle (square) around Capitol [...]

[...] 30 that I have to focus there. Going back a few weeks…I was reading “Soulprint” and Pastor Mark writes how our earliest memories are often some of our most defining.  He encourages an [...]

In the beginning was… shalom. Everything was the way it was created to be.  It was good. The creation account shows God’s creation being satisfie [...]

Well, at first glance, it can seem that 5 chapters of countless names might be a pretty boring read. And if you’re not paying attention to the detai [...]

[...] in God to trying and failing to find that satisfaction in something else. It always backfires. CS Lewis said, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most [...]

[...] understanding liturgy. Growing up in an evangelical-hybrid denomination, we did not practice traditional liturgy. However, when I began dating my husband, visits home would often place us at Catholic [...]

[...] a one-time project for him. Or a year-long goal to check off the list. It was a life-long immersion in the transformational words of God. As we conclude this adventure through the [...]

[...] I have become more interested in studying and understanding liturgy. Growing up in an evangelical-hybrid denomination, we did not practice traditional liturgy. However, when I began dating my husband, [...]

[...] by the memories I had kicked up, I recently attended a women’s conference with Speaker Christine Caine.  Christine found out as an adult that she was actually adopted and had been left [...]

[...] an appreciation of it and its function in individual and corporate faith practice. The pastor declares an attribute of God or a portion of His story. In so doing we respond reaffirming who God is [...]

[...] Mark put it, like Joshua, pointing our spear towards opening a café in Berlin; launching a 6th location in DC; taking concrete steps towards a Dream Center; and praising God for giving us a city [...]

[...] of the greater body of Christ. I love how we brought our cymbals (drums), harps (electric/bass guitars), lyres (keys), and trumpeters (voices) to recognize and praise God for what He has [...]