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Evening
The final part of our collective prayer rhythm involves reflecting on our day with a focus on forgiveness. When Jesus taught us to pray, he placed a special emphasis on our responsibility to forgive as a response to the forgiveness we have received from God. Terri walks us through an evening prayer practice to help us with this difficult practice.
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Our Daily Bread
This sermon introduces the third part of the Third Way community rhythm, a prayer before meals that focusses on trust, gratitude, and generosity.
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Work
Bonnie introduced Part Two of the Third Way Collective Rhythm, which focuses on our work. It is linked to the second section of the Lord’s Prayer (“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”). The prayer for this portion is, “Lord, may your will be my will today, in everything I do and with everyone I meet.”
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Our Morning Focus
The way we start our day is incredibly important. It can set the entire trajectory for the rest of the day. The Third Way community is embarking on a new journey together by sharing a collective rhythm of daily spiritual practices formed around the Lord’s Prayer. The goal is to daily open ourselves up to God’s influence and transforming power. Our morning focus within the rhythm is centered on “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” As a community, we want to use a portion of our mornings to worship God and invite God to direct our day so that God is glorified.
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Third Way Collective Rhythm Introduction
This lent, Third Way is focusing on establishing a collective rhythm to pray through each day based upon The Lord’s Prayer. Terri introduces the importance of approaching this work as a corporate body rather than a collection of individuals, and then helps us think through how habits are formed and sustained.
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Time Reorientation
We often find ourselves believing that we just don’t have time to connect with God. We think we’re just too busy to experience God’s transforming power in our lives. Josias interviews two Franciscan Brothers of Peace to learn how their daily orientation around prayer has affected their experience of spiritual transformation. This sort of daily orientation around connecting with God will further be developed as we explore a very accessible, collective rhythm of prayer during our Lent series.
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Giving Up Our Self Image
We often waste a lot of time and energy worrying about what other people think of us, often to the point where it is a distraction from our service to God and others. Are there better ways we could spend that time and energy?
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Managing Pigs For God
Lyle Miller, Everence Stewardship Consultant, shows that
financial stewardship is actually a spiritual practice in which we
must realize our role as managers of God’s resources. It’s only when
that takes place that we can be freed to participate in God’s mission
of expanding his generous and abundant kingdom.
Captive Thoughts
As we begin a new series focused on surrender for the purposes of transformation, Terri focuses on the importance of offering our thought life up to God.
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Assessing our Privilege
John wrapped up our Recounting the Cost series with the story of the Wise Men. What was the significance of their presence in the story? How might we related to them in the story? How might we recognize where our privilege gives us opportunities to give opportunities to others?
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