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2024-12-03T19:03:29-05:00

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The Spiritual Value of Longing in Advent

Last updated on: December 3, 2024 at 7:03 pm By Sarah Forti

The Spiritual Value of Longing A friend told me recently that digestion has multiple stages, and it does not begin after we swallow our food. The whole event begins before we even put the food in our mouths, when allow ourselves to salivate. The process of preparing food and setting the table prepares our bodies to receive. Anticipation and longing are necessary parts of the process of being fed. During the season of Advent, what are some of the ways... Read more

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2024-11-19T16:57:08-05:00

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Building Up Spiritual Endurance

Last updated on: November 19, 2024 at 4:57 pm By Sarah Forti

Spiritual Endurance in The Wild Robot The phrase “spiritual endurance” came to me as I was reflecting on two 2024 films this week. I recently took a group of young families to see the film, “The Wild Robot”, based on a book series written by Peter Brown. It’s one of those films that’s partly for kids, but mostly for moms as we see a task-oriented robot learn authenticity through loving a child. One aspect of the film is the robot... Read more

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2024-10-29T15:47:20-04:00

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Love Your Neighbor During Election Season

Last updated on: October 29, 2024 at 3:47 pm By Sarah Forti

Outward Signs In the lectionary reading this past Sunday, Jesus passed blind Bartimaeus on the road. Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” Mark 10:51 As I pass dozens of political signs on the road, I feel led to pray for this election. What if Jesus passed by those same signs and asked us, “What do you want me to do... Read more

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2024-07-30T17:47:09-04:00

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Three Essentials of Discipleship

Last updated on: July 30, 2024 at 5:47 pm By Sarah Forti

A Model of Discipleship The Gospels show us a model of discipleship that involves three primary action steps: receiving, responding, and resting. At first, the disciples are simply people who are listening to Jesus. They are learning and receiving from him. Then he entrusts them to go out teaching and serving on their own. After this, he teaches them how to rest and recover in the same way that he does. This process of learning and growing is for the... Read more

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2024-05-06T17:55:16-04:00

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How to Abide in Christ

Last updated on: May 6, 2024 at 5:55 pm By Sarah Forti

Creating Images of Separation and Connection One of my first classes at George Fox Evangelical Seminary was called “Knowing Self Knowing God”. We discussed the idea that while we respond to the reality of our situation, we also respond to our understanding of reality. I don’t just interact with you as you are, I also interact with the image of you I have created in my mind. This image gathers data from you, and includes my own history, assumptions, and... Read more

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2024-04-06T11:30:50-04:00

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Roll Away the Stones of Inner, National, and Global Conflict

Last updated on: April 6, 2024 at 11:30 am By Sarah Forti

Who Will Roll Away the Stone? When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, ‘Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?’ When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was... Read more

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2024-03-22T10:12:22-04:00

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Four Questions to Build a Rule of Life

Last updated on: March 22, 2024 at 10:12 am By Sarah Forti

Love Is the Model The Rule of Life is a supportive resource that can enrich, challenge, and renew our rhythm of being. It originated with St. Benedict, an Italian monk who both founded monasteries and wrote the Rule of Monasteries in 529AD. This Rule was meant for the shared life of monks, but the concept has been adapted for individuals by many organizations. This model from the Gospel Coalition teaches a Rule of Life stemming from our relationship to God,... Read more

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2024-02-22T17:13:51-05:00

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How Black History Month Can Help Us Observe A Holy Lent

Last updated on: February 22, 2024 at 5:13 pm By Sarah Forti

Pioneers In Ordination February is Black History Month, and it’s a wonderful time to celebrate the legacy of Absalom Jones. Absalom Jones was born into slavery, but he taught himself to read using the New Testament. He saved up enough money to purchase the freedom of his wife and children, and then purchased his own freedom. Jones became a lay minister for the African-American parishioners at St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He ran this ministry alongside his friend... Read more

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2024-02-13T14:28:14-05:00

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Ash Wednesday Valentine: Leave Church Dirtier than you Came

Last updated on: February 13, 2024 at 2:28 pm By Sarah Forti

The Normalcy of Cleanness Valentine’s Day falls on Ash Wednesday this year. This combination of holidays can actually be an opportunity for deep connection. Will you be bringing your Valentine to church? Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent, when last year’s palms are burned and worn on our faces. This is wearing the story on our skin, not as an addition, but as an uncovering of what we believe to be there. In Mark 7,... Read more

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2024-02-07T16:49:48-05:00

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Jesus is the Voice of God

Last updated on: February 7, 2024 at 4:49 pm By Sarah Forti

A Particular Kind of Listening “Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room; the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’... Read more

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