Cultivating Our Spiritual Lives – Part 5

Slow down and create space for silence and solitude each day. But, here’s the key – creating space means allowing time for reflection and contemplation with God and listening to Him. I think we often create space and just fill it with whatever we want. How about just guarding that space and...

Cultivating Our Spiritual Lives – Part 4

When it comes to cultivating our lives, we have to get this one simple life principle: don’t manage time, rather order your life in light of the time you have. Jesus did this. He lived out daily priorities. Luke 21 [37] Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to...

Cultivating Our Spiritual Lives – Part 3

To experience all that God has for us, Jesus askes us to abandon our own agenda and follow him. It actually becomes easier and easier to hear his voice and follow him the more we do it. Luke 9 [23] Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish...

Cultivating Our Spiritual Lives – Part 2

How do we live a more balanced life? We need to rearrange our lives so that we live balance spiritual practices like Jesus did. What are the spiritual practices of Jesus? He engaged in praying and but also stepped out in faith. He meditated on Scripture but he also acted on what Scripture said to do...

Cultivating Our Spiritual Lives – Part 1

We’re overloaded with thoughts, books, theories and formulas on what it means to grow spiritually. How do we make sense out of it all? How do we get back to simplicity and what matters most? The one question that I think we need to answer is how did Jesus do it? How did he stay fresh and vibrant and...