The Gift of Hospitality - Part 8

All the gifts must be bathed in prayer. Often while in prayer I will receive clearer understanding as to the Lord’s specific purposes at work through the gifts. The first time I was aware of the gift of knowledge I had been simply enjoying the quiet of the presence of the Lord. http://ping.fm/DzYfL

?Sunday Prayer?

Fill our home, Lord, with Yourself. Let us give to those who come, You. He comes, this Guest, externally in the rooms and internally in our souls. Here He is in His immanence and in His transcendence.

The Immanent Guest - Part 7

We need to point one another to the Lord with the confidence that He indeed can teach each of us what it is we need. We must come to cherish our own experience, but not to the point of insisting that others duplicate it. We must delight in the unique way God calls each of us to holiness, and realize that His works among the children of men are as different from one another as the stars are from the sands of the seas. http://ping.fm/O9xRf

The Immanent Guest - Part 3

“All who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.” This is the basic premise: The Holy Spirit dwells within each Christian. http://ping.fm/xHU6B

The Role Of The Holy Spirit In Our Lives

When we have yielded ourselves in obedience to our Lord, opened our lives to the indwelling of His Spirit, and pleaded to be purified by the fire of His Presence, we discover with delight that He has endowed us with marvelous tools to aid us in our missions. http://ping.fm/KRypH

High School Reunion

We remember those, friends and companions, who have been in our midst, but who are now gone. We thank you for the part of their lives that we have shared, however brief or however joyful. Let us remind ourselves, because of them, that each day is a gift, not a promise, to be lived as beautifully as possible within our abilities and our means. http://ping.fm/2P4vl

Prayer for Today

O God, help us to hear, to hear those cries without fear for ourselves, and with compassion for those who mourn. Help us to listen to those in need, without thought for our own material treasures. Help us to seek to be like Christ, upon whom was the Spirit of the Lord.

A Christian's Home

Christ’s ministry to this impoverished, captive, blinded and oppressed world must, in one way or another, also be ours. Many of us have been given a most remarkable tool through which to minister — the miracle of a Christian home. http://ping.fm/anZpV

Company?s Comin? - Part 4

I’m sharing my own life experiences, hoping to give you some insight into the importance of Christian hospitality. By talking about the development of an open heart in my own life, I’m trusting God to use what I’ve experienced to stir up some consideration of how your past has shaped your openness to being used by God in a similar way. http://ping.fm/uZV33

Scavenger Genes

‎"I cannot tell you how much I believe in the power of the godly scavenger hunt. Seeking the outcast, sharing the message of the Gospel with those who feel they are unfit. Telling them of a God who became outcast in order to reclaim and recycle those who were outrageously deformed, discarded and lost. This seems to me to be the essence of the Scripture. It is a reclamation and recycling story." http://ping.fm/IUM4y

Fitting in Fitness

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.” Living daily in that place seems to me to be the epitome of spiritual health. http://bit.ly/diH04y

Life Story Mapping Workshop/Retreat Sept 19-20 & Nov. 6-7, 2010

Experience all the visual maps in the Listen to My Life workbook with the authors, Sibyl Towner, Sharon Swing, and Rebecca Madden in a two-part workshop/retreat in Rockford, IL September 19-20 and November 6-7. Come to part one to get started, or part one and part two to complete the process. Visit http://ping.fm/COl7q EO_regFall2010workshop.html for details.

"Read and Intercede" Book Group

If you are eager to be part of the lively intellectual and spiritual exchange of "Read and Intercede" group book (and you live in the nearby western Chicago suburbs) please contact Judy Duncan at bjesha@aol.com. She will be happy to give you details and directions. http://ping.fm/MpcDM

Read Any Good Books Lately?

I would like to invite you to be part of our book group. For those of you who are not local or can’t fit this kind of commitment into your schedule, I would encourage you at least to begin reading books that open the world up to you. Read with at least another friend (or two), discuss what you have read and take time to pray for the world you have just discovered. http://bit.ly/cncXB7

Listening Group Leaders Teleconference Training On August 24, 2010

Listening Group Leaders teleconference training will be on August 24, 2010 at 7:00 P.M. Central Standard Time. If you would like to join us and didn’t sign up, just phone (712) 432-0180. When prompted, enter this participant access code: 841894#. If you would like to receive the training, but are unable to attend, we will be taping this one-hour
session. You can obtain those access codes by contacting Karen at karen@hungrysoul.org.

Listening Group Teleconference Training

Some 24 people signed up for the Listening Group Leaders teleconference training. Our next evening for a repeat training call will be August 24th at 7:00 P.M. Central Standard Time. If you would like to join us and didn’t sign up, just phone (712) 432-0180. When prompted, enter this participant access code: 841894#. If you would like to receive the training, but are unable to attend, we will be taping this one-hour session. You can obtain those access codes by contacting Karen at karen@hungrysoul.org. Karen will be in the North Carolina mountains from August 24 to August 31 and will get back to you when she returns to Chicago.

Daily Inspirations

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. 1 Peter 4:12-13

There is a mansion in our souls for which we need to take intimate responsibility. http://ping.fm/kVQAe

Daily Inspirations

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial,
because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial,
because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12