To help us grow in our lives of study and prayer we’re continuing with our Bible Prayer Meeting experiment. This is a time of contemplation, discussion, and prayer that we hold in Pilgrim’s sanctuary.
Our next set is Thursday, January 14th,  at both 11:00 AM and 7:30 PM.
We’ll have one “movement,” which will have four parts:

Contemplate: [...]

I’ve been doing this for nearly thirty years if you count vicarage. In the Lutheran Church we confirm students at the eighth grade. Most congregations have classes for two to three years to help prepare youth for this step. According to Luther’s Small Catechism with Explanation [Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO, © 1986],
“Confirmation is [...]

What does The Present Future have to say. In helping us look to the future, Reggie McNeal talks about six “new realities” and, in each points out the “wrong” question — the one we often spend our time on — and the “tough” question — the one we should really be studying.
Here are McNeal’s realities [...]

Conversations change the world. Abraham’s conversation with an invisible God forever altered human history. Moses’ conversations with a voice emanating from a burning bush initiated the biggest event in Old Testament history. Paul’s conversation with a resurrected Jesus launched the Christian movement as a phenomenon. And, most dramatically, the Word became flesh—the conversation of God [...]

As a follow-up to his book The Present Future I’ve started reading Reggie McNeal’s Missional Renaissance. For those Pilgrims who were present for our session with Dr. Scherer last fall, McNeal’s book is a continuation of that.

This is from McNeal’s introduction:
“The rise of the missional church is the single biggest development in Christianity since the [...]