Following are four great excerpts from Right Here Right Now: Everyday Mission For Everyday People by Alan Hirsch and Lance Ford. If we are truly committed to bringing Jesus as the center of our lives among others and to see the church renewed in the mission of God, we will lead it toward a greater [...]
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Right Here Right Now
Posted: 19th June 2011 by Brad Brisco in Alan Hirsch, Books, Ecclesiology, Missiology, Missional, Prayer, Scripture, Spiritual FormationComments Off
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Oh God, when I have food,help me to remember the hungry;When I have work,help me to remember the jobless;When I have a warm home,help me to remember the homeless;When I am without pain,help me to remember those who suffer;And remembering,help me to destroy my complacencyand stir up my compassion.Make me concerned enoughto help by word [...]
Evening Prayer
Posted: 18th October 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Justice, Missional, Prayer, Way of JesusHeavenly Father, give me a heart like the heart of Jesus, a heart more ready to minister than to be ministered to, a heart moved by compassion towards the weak and the oppressed, a heart set upon the coming of Your Kingdom in the world. I pray tonight, for all those sorts and conditions of [...]
Praying with Dallas Willard
Posted: 19th September 2010 by Brad Brisco in Missional, Prayer, Scripture, Spiritual FormationHere is Dallas Willard’s paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer. He suggests that we paraphrase the prayer from time to time because its richness lends itself to much meditation. Dear Father always near us,may your name be treasured and loved,may your rule be completed in us-may your will be done here on earth injust the way [...]
Subversive Spirituality & Transforming Mission
Posted: 30th June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Missional, Prayer, Spiritual FormationI am in the process of reading an excellent book by L. Paul Jensen titled Subversive Spirituality: Transforming Mission through the Collapse of Space and Time. I hope to share more in the near future, but for now I want to take a moment and recommend Jensen’s work. Subversive Spirituality is not only a very [...]
As I arise today,may the strength of God pilot me,the power of God uphold me,the wisdom of God guide me.May the eye of God look before me,the ear of God hear me,the word of God speak for me.May the hand of God protect me,the way of God lie before me,the shield of God defend me,the [...]
Pat Keifert on Missional Church
Posted: 15th March 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, Missiology, Missional, Prayer, Spiritual Formation, VideoHere is an interesting video dialog (produced/edited by Bill Kinnon) between Alan Roxbugh and Pat Keifert. They discuss a wide range of issues, including definitions/descriptions of missional church, common views of the contemporary church, and leadership in missional congregations. In the discussion on leadership I appreciate Keifert’s emphasis on leadership being more about time than [...]
Quotes on Prayer and Confession
Posted: 19th February 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Prayer, Spiritual FormationHere are four quotes, two on prayer and two on confession, that really spoke to me this past week. In order to find a person who prays, you have to look for clues: charitableness, good temper, patience, a fair ability to handle stress, resonance, openness to others. What happens to people who pray is that [...]
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It’s a world of confusion, Lord: we are muddled in our thinking; we are mixed in our emotions; we are inconsistent in our actions. It’s a world of lies, Lord: we deceive ourselves about our motives and intentions; we mislead others with double-speak and spin; we exploit you as an agent of social control and [...]
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“Dear Heavenly Father, while I am on this journey through life, I pray that I may always listen for your voice, whether it is for praise or discipline. Please, please may I always know your presence, especially if I am to journey through life’s valleys. When I am weak fill me with your strength, and [...]
“Lord God, fill us with your Holy Spirit, baptise us in your love and send us in your strength to minister Christ to those we meet. Give us great confidence in the message of the gospel, open doors of opportunity for us and enable us with courage and sensitivity to speak of Jesus. Heavenly Father, [...]
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“O Lord, who has warned us that you will require much of those to whom much is given; grant that we whose lot is cast in so godly a heritage may strive together the more abundantly by prayer, by almsgiving, by fasting, and by every other appointed means, to extend to others what we so [...]
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“Grant us grace, our Father, to do our work this day as workmen who need not be ashamed. Give us the spirit of diligence and honest enquiry in our quest for the truth, the spirit of charity in all of our dealings with our fellows, and the spirit of gaiety, courage, and a quiet mind [...]
“Our heavenly Father, we commend to your mercy those for whom life does not spell freedom: prisoners of conscience, the homeless and the handicapped, the sick in body and mind, the elderly who are confined to their homes, those who are enslaved by their passions, and those who are addicted to drugs. Grant that, whatever [...]
Gracious and Holy Father, give us wisdom to perceive You, intelligence to understand You, diligence to seek You, patience to wait for You, eyes to behold You, hearts to meditate upon You, and a life to proclaim You, through the power of the Holy Spirit of Christ our Lord. – Benedict of Nursia (480-547)