Part two of the audio recording of our Spiritual Formation Workshop on November 14, 2015. This Workshop was led by Bob Hyatt of the Ecclesia Network and a pastor with the Evergreen Community in Portland, OR. Here you can find a copy of Forming Life diagram referenced in this recording.

Part one of the audio recording of our Spiritual Formation Workshop on November 14, 2015. This Workshop was led by Bob Hyatt of the Ecclesia Network and a pastor with the Evergreen Community in Portland, OR. two_spiritual_journeys of the two spiritual journeys referenced in this recording.

Special guest Bob Hyatt joined us with a sermon on Colossians 1:1-14. Bob is a pastor with The Evergreen Community, and the Director of Equipping and Spiritual Formation for The Ecclesia Network. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes

Chris Morton continued in the lectionary and Mark 12:38-44 by asking, “What do you have to give?” Quotes and links mentioned: The Gift of the Magi “I have done what was mine. May Christ teach you what is yours.” St. Francis of Assisi Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes

April Karli Moved us back into the lectionary with a sermon on Jesus’ prime teaching on love in Mark 12:28-34. Quotes and links mentioned: I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. It was as if I kept refusing to hear the voice that speaks … Read More →

Our own Shane Blackshear and our friend Sam Myrick shared their own stories of finding vocation in the midst of career changes. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes

John Chandler continued looking at our practice of Vocation. Quotes and links mentioned: The marvelous truth is, that being the Word, so far from being Himself contained by anything, He actually contained all things Himself. In creation He is present everywhere, yet is distinct in being from it; ordering, directing, giving life to all, containing all, yet is He Himself … Read More →

John Chandler kicked off our month of reflecting on Vocation with a look at the larger story that our lives are part of. Quotes and links mentioned: A huge number of people wake up in the morning and think, I gotta do something else, or Three more days until the weekend. This is because we were created to rule on … Read More →

Chris Morton wrapped up the Sermon on the Mount by discussing what it really means that we can build our entire lives on Jesus’ foundation. Quotes and links mentioned: From a Christian point of view, the world needs the church, not to help the world run more smoothly or to make the world a better and safer place for Christians … Read More →

John Chandler worked us into Jesus’ closing challenge and invitation in the Sermon on the Mount. Quotes and links mentioned: “Because this sermon is so wide in mercy, it can surprise us now to hear Jesus call his gate “narrow.” In what sense are the width of the Beatitudes and the breadth of the Lord’s Prayer narrow? In this sense: … Read More →