http://www.journeyscommunity.org Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:52:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jim Wallis, an evangelical Christian, is a powerful voice in the larger religious community today. He is the author of the best-selling book: God's Politics. His message is that poverty in this country and in the world is the driving moral issue of our day. He says that "there are ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/faith-action/faith-action/ More Will Be Revealed A few months ago I agreed to lead a service on this date tentatively titled, "Dark Night of the Soul" and I had collected some poems and passages along the way that I thought might help me form this theme. But when we actually got to the ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/more-to-be-revealed/reflections-from-the-past-6/ SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED There's nothing worse than being both lost and disoriented. I don't know if you've ever experienced that frightening duo but high on the list of things that simply do not go well together have to be the experience of both being lost and disoriented. And if you ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/life-assembly-required/reflections-from-the-past-5/ God in the Ordinary A couple of weeks ago, I was driving to Harry’s house for a brainstorming session. We hold these sessions about once every 6 weeks to generate new ideas for services, and this particular day, I had nothing. I was completely empty of ideas. SO on the ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/god-in-the-ordinary/reflections-from-the-past-4/ Longing For Home In the film clip this morning, there were two views of home. The brother and sister experience "home" in very different ways. I will speak of both of these view of home. Every year people ask each other: "Are you going home for Christmas?" And for many of ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/home/reflections-from-the-past-3/ Rhythm and Balance This past September was a difficult time for me. The lazy days of summer had ended and I found myself thrown back into the world of school and extra curricular activities. I was chairing an event at my children's school that took place the first week ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/balance/reflections-from-the-past-2/ Do It Again - 2005 In today's service we are looking at the benefit available, the nourishment available to our spirits, through living more intentionally in the so called routine moments of our lives and in playing the role of author or designer of the moments that we put into ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/rituals/reflections-from-the-past/ This Weeks Reflection June 20, 2004We had been married twelve years when Lynn suggested we take a long vacation, a car trip to Sanibel, three weeks. The plan was to return with a decision whether or not to try to have children. Toward the end of our time there ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/fathers-day/fathers-day-june-2004/ This weeks Reflection One of the most defining events for me in creating the Journeys experience relates to a letter a minister of my own Christian tradition wrote to my Bishop challenging the whole basis of Journeys Community. His complaint was that Journeys Community did not subscribe to the historic creeds ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/reflections/the-journeys-experience-listening-to-your-life-june-8th/ This Week's Reflection What if you could design your own God? What would he-or it-be like? I've titled our time together "Why Not Design Your Own God?" Notice I didn't call this a presentation, or a sermon. What it will be, actually, is a spiritual rumination in ... http://www.journeyscommunity.org/uncategorized/why-not-design-your-own-god-june-1-2008/