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- Remember Mercy
As we enter the season of Lent, Gideon Tsang reflects on what we need to remember about God’s goodness [Psalm 103:1-6].
Reflection
- What does it look like to bring your shame into the magnitude of mercy this week?
- How does it make you feel knowing God wants to satisfy your needs with goodness as long as you live?
Spiritual Practice
- Marinate in the vastness of mercy. Where’s the furthest place you’ve been on earth? Drop off your shame on a trip across the world.
Resources
- Film: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Music: Only One (Kanye West)
34 min - Facing Our Fear
Gena Minnix reflects on the Transfiguration and what it means to allow Jesus to come alongside us in our fear and to trust enough to take a small leap towards authentic love [Matthew 17:1-8].
Reflection
- How is fear shrinking my perspective on God, myself, others, or what’s possible?
- What would happen if I allowed Jesus to come alongside me and give me a new perspective?
- What "leap" am I afraid of taking in my relationship with God?
Spiritual Practice
- Breath Prayer. “God, even though I’m afraid… help me choose love.”
- Breath Prayer. “Jesus I can’t, you can… I’ll let go.”
Resources
- Video: Yes Theory Bungee Jumping with Will Smith
32 min - Growing in Maturity
Weylin Lee reflects on our spiritual growth and how we can tell if our faith is maturing or not [1 Corinthians 3:1-9].
Reflection
- What life-giving rhythms are we feeding ourselves to experience growth?
- Who do we view through a lens of rivalry and how can we look for the movement of God that’s stirring in us and them?
Spiritual Practice
- Craft a Rhythm of Life. Select intentional rhythms and practices that are appropriate for your emotional development. Personal rhythms (scripture, prayer, generosity). Communal rhythms (liturgy, sharing resources). Missional rhythms (hospitality, neighbor, partnerships).
Resources
- Book: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Peter Scazerro)
- Rhythm of Life
- Podcast: Fresh Air (Bryan Stevenson)
- Film: Parasite
27 min - Delivered
Judy Peterson reflects on the feminine Epiphany of how Jesus arrived and what it means for our ability to view our own bodies more charitably [Luke 1].
Reflection
- What would it look like for us to step away from the dualistic thinking that says we are either holy or sinful and instead simply acknowledge that sometimes we are just human and that's more than alright?
- Is it possible that the hidden, vulnerable or even shame-filled part of your life or story might just be the exact portal through which God wants to be delivered into this world?
41 min - Close to Home
Gideon Tsang reflects on what we might find in God’s home, which is us [Psalm 84].
Reflection
- How is God inviting you into yourself this week?
- Where are you in your pilgrimage to find your own strength?
Spiritual Practice
- Reflect on how comfortable we are with ourselves. Are you comfortable with yourself? What parts are you not comfortable with? What parts are you comfortable with?
- Reflect on your pilgrimage. What part of this pilgrimage are you on? What is your valley? Do we trust that we’ll find springs in the valley?
Resources
- Video: Dave Chapelle at DC Improv
- Video: Space12 Move
32 min - Dawning
Jason Minnix reflects on how Jesus carries light to bring people into their calling [Matthew 4:12-23].
Reflection
- Where do I sense the light that seems too good to be true?
- How can I begin or continue to listen to my deeper desires?
Spiritual Practice
- Attending to the Light of Desire. Are my desires being sacrificed for my habits, or are my habits supporting my deeper desires? Examine your habits over time to see if they help you realize your deeper desire.
- How has way closed behind me? Am I doing a bunch of good things, or am I getting closer to the best things to invest in? Take some time to look back and name some limits more visible now in the things that haven’t worked out. Ask someone you trust if they agree with your list of limits and sense of what you’re best at.
Resources
- Book: Let Your Life Speak (Parker Palmer)
30 min - Life of Service
Weylin Lee reflects on how are we invited to live a life of service that’s sustainable and connected to what God is doing [Isaiah 49:1-7].
Reflection
- If you listen to your life, what is it revealing about your calling?
- How might you live a life of service in more sustainable ways?
- Similar to light, in what ways are you simply revealing God’s love?
Spiritual Practice
- Personal Compass. Use the image of a compass to reflect on your life. Reflect on the four directions and what they each represent. Allow your life to speak back to you and help you begin to discern your calling. (exercise link below)
- Centering Prayer. Practice consenting to God’s presence and action. Consider service from a second half of life framework.
Resources
- Book: Let Your Life Speak (Parker Palmer)
- Book: Journaling as a Spiritual Practice (Helen Cepero)
- Personal Compass Exercise
27 min - Close to Epiphany
Gideon Tsang reflects on the season of epiphany using the framework of order, disorder and reorder [Isaiah 42:5-9].
Reflection
- Who or what in life brings you alive?
- How might loss and disappearance bring you into yourself
Spiritual Practice
- Reflect on God’s Creation. Think of the tastiest food you’ve eaten. Think of something beautiful or breathtaking in creation. Look at yourself and think about your life. Say aloud “Mmmmm… so good”
- Reflect on Disorder. What part of your life do you feel stuck, like a prison? What if our blindness, our darkness, our stuckness, is an important part of epiphany?
- Reflect on Reorder. Is your original beauty still blossoming? How might your original beauty continue to spring forth?
Resources
- Video: Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides
- Music Video: Smile by Jay-Z (feat Gloria Carter)
36 min - Generous Language
As we begin a new year, Jason Minnix reflects on how God’s language is generous enough to hold all of us and our experiences [John 1:1-9].
Reflection
- Have I found the language big enough to hold my journey now?
- Where is your darkness and light living now? (offer compassion to your darkness)
- What questions will shape your beauty in the year to come?
Spiritual Practice
- Look for generous language this week. Have you found language big enough to hold your journey now? Is our language creating new possibilities of inclusion for ourselves and others?
- Consider how we relate to God. What’s alive in my journey? Where does my darkness live? Where is the light?
Resources
- Video: The Office (12 Days of Christmas)
- Podcast: On Being (David Whyte)
36 min - Unfinished
Chris Morton reflects on the hope that God is not finished with our growth and transformation [Acts 9:32-41].
Reflection
- What is unfinished in your life?
- What would you change if you invited God into that?
28 min
About Vox Veniae Podcast
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The work of the people. Our weekly rhythm of being together as a larger community to worship and confess, to engage scripture and prayer, to celebrate eucharist, and to be sent back into the city with…
a benediction each and every week.