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Faith at Home: Planning for Advent

November 25, 2018 By Allison Sandlin Liles 1 Comment

Advent is officially one week away. How are you feeling about it? Will this be the year you are finally able to slow down and enjoy this season of preparation? Grow Christians tries every November to ready our community to do just that.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Advent, Advent wreath, Forward Movement, liturgy, Posadas, Prayer, Way of Love

Building Bridges in Times of Tension

October 1, 2018 By Matthew Chen Leave a Comment

“But we already went to church today!” my son said plaintively. “That’s right,” I replied, but “it was my church; now we’re going to mommy’s […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: blended family, Children in church, Family, liturgy, roman catholic

Whole Body Worship

July 17, 2018 By Meredith Baker Leave a Comment

When I first attended the Episcopal Church as an evangelical, low-church college student, the liturgical service had a foreign choreography. It was as confusing as […]

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: church, Liturgical Movement, liturgy, Prayer

We thanked God for each room in our old home before we moved.

October 7, 2017 By Melissa Wilcox 11 Comments

As a parent, moving a family creates a sense of dread and anticipation all wrapped into one.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, liturgy, moving, parenting, Prayer

Gather, Listen, Do & Go – A Simple Pattern for Family Faith

July 8, 2017 By Jerusalem Jackson Greer 2 Comments

We can pattern our lives at home after the pattern we see in the liturgy.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: discipleship, liturgy, ministry, summer

The Litany of Penitence prepares us for the season to come.

March 13, 2017 By Nadia Stefko 3 Comments

If I want to be able to absorb all the new life Easter has to offer – all the resistance it offers to the powers of sin in our broken world – I need the grace that comes with honest confession and repentance.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: agriculture, Book of Common Prayer, compost, Easter, liturgy, penitence, resurrection, sin

Secret of a Pew Whisperer: Explain the Game

August 4, 2016 By Derek Olsen 2 Comments

My dad didn’t just explain football to me—he and mom explained what was going on in church too: what we were doing and why it was important. Now I do the same.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Book of Common Prayer, Children in church, football, liturgy, secrets of a pew whisperer

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