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Benchmarks for Christians

July 8, 2019 By Sharon Ely Pearson Leave a Comment

From time to time the Forma Facebook Group has a post from someone (clergy, youth minister, Christian educator) who is asking if anyone has a “rubric” for what children should learn in each year of “Sunday School” (or whatever you call it).

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Children in church, Christian formation, discipleship, resource, Sunday School, young children

Witnesses in Jerusalem, Witnesses at Home

July 1, 2019 By Laura Shaver 2 Comments

During my time serving as the communications director for a particular diocese in the Episcopal Church, I was often overwhelmed at the stories of grand ministry taking place all over the globe.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: discipleship, parenting, pilgrimage, travel, vacation bible school, young children

How to Save Teenagers for Eternity in Three Easy Steps

April 26, 2019 By Meredith Baker 2 Comments

As a teen, my stomach sank whenever I boarded a plane. I wasn’t scared to fly, I was nervous about sharing the gospel with my seatmate. What could be more awkward than cornering the total stranger trapped next to you to inquire about their eternal destiny? Yet that’s what my evangelical preachers told me to do on flights. 

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: discipleship, grace, salvation, teenagers, youth, youth group, youth ministry

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Cost of Discipleship Today

April 9, 2019 By Miguel Escobar 3 Comments

Today the Episcopal Church celebrates Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian, a founder of Germany’s Confessing Church movement, and forceful resister to Nazi dictatorship.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: bonhoeffer, cloud of witnesses, discipleship, grace, hate

Where God Moves This New Year

January 21, 2019 By Laura Shaver Leave a Comment

During a recent children’s time in church, one of our priests gave each child a slip of four star foil stickers – the ones that typically accompany a good grade on a worksheet from school – colored red, silver, gold, green, and blue.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Children in church, discipleship, parenting

Shouting and Sharing God’s Love at Summer Camp

May 18, 2018 By Paris Ball Leave a Comment

Something I’ve learned over the past decade from serving The Diocese of Virginia as the Director of Shrine Mont Camps is that time feels different […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: camp, discipleship, love, Prayer, youth

Our Movie Making Journey Through Lent

May 5, 2018 By Elizabeth Floyd 1 Comment

I have the good fortune of working with a bright, gifted group of kids who are being raised by loving parents devoted to their Christian […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Bible, children, Children in church, discipleship, God, Lent, young children

Saints don’t need to be heroes

May 1, 2018 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

Philip and James aren’t the most well known of the Twelve Apostles, so what can we learn from them? For one thing, they left everything and followed Jesus. Could you do that?

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Saints Tagged With: Bible, discipleship, James, Jesus, Philip, saints, teenagers

A Rule of Life is an ancient concept. But did you know you could write your own?

April 14, 2018 By Charles LaFond Leave a Comment

A Rule reminds us of who we are and what we want.

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Lent Almost Passed Me By (But God Didn’t)

March 13, 2018 By Benjamin Gildas Leave a Comment

I was married on January 14th of this year. Lent arrived not long after.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: art, discipleship, Lent, young children

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