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Have you been to morning prayer yet? ‘What is morning prayer’ you ask? Simply put, it is an experience where you read the scripture and listen (in prayer) to what God is saying to you for that very day.

If you’d like to experiment with this process, then pick a time: Mondays & Wednesdays, 6 & 7:30 AM in the Fireside Room. For more info/explanation, click here.

If you are lectio-literate, the you might enjoy these two links.

Guided Morning Prayer

Gospel Reading Se-lectionary

Hope you’re having a great week! Enjoy your small group and I’ll see you Sunday!

This article is a stunning post about how the statistical breakdown of the seven deadly sins in our culture pertaining to exact cities. This was listed first at Forbes.com. I think you’ll find this interesting. Post some feedback!

Another interesting follow-up post about how we effect change the culture can be found here.

“God spoke, and bang it was there!” 

Doesn’t that cliche just get you excited about the Creator God in the Genesis of scripture? {insert sarcasm at a level that seems tolerant to you}.   This post makes a lot of great points on the theories surrounding creation.  Take a look and let me know what you think!

Click the (re)new banner above to check out the “web-isodes” for our new Spiritual Disciplines adventure.  We hope they will serve as a great visual example as you experiment with the disciplines yourself.

Remember, we’ve defined the disciplines as a means of creating space to hear God speak truth into your life.  Here and here are lists of common spiritual practices.

This post is for the extremely creative visual learner. See the vast connections from the scripture through art.

I also found this clever post on the spread of religion on ThinkChristian.net.

Let me know your thoughts, comment below.

This is is great article about your sleeping habits and how they effect your walk with Christ.

Big Valley Grace just opened up it’s free public wifi hotspot. So, anytime during the week that you want to hang out, surf the web, study or get work done, just visit the main lobby.

If you want a coffee, you’ll have to stop at Giacomo’s or that Bucks place first. Rumor has it that $1 cofffee is coming soon!

We aren’t the first church to try this. I recently read an interesting article on ThinkChristian.net. Preview it below:

Continuing our conversation of a few weeks ago I’d like to add this spin on the free wi-fi debate from Church Marketing Sucks. For rest of article, click here.