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August 2024

August 27, 2024

Walking with Others: Allowing Prayer to Transform Ourselves

Prayer is not just about interceding for others; it’s also a powerful tool for personal...

August 24, 2024

Praying for Others: A Framework for Intercession

Over the past few weeks, I have been reflecting on what it means to effectively...

August 14, 2024

Reflecting God’s Goodness Through Work and Stillness

This Lead a Quiet Life blog on Patheos focuses on a life lived in light...

July 2024

July 14, 2024

Living in a Divided World: A Call to Faithful Presence

On Saturday, violent acts were carried out against an individual who is a former president...

July 07, 2024

Keeping A Daily Office: A Challenge from Solomon ibn Gabirol

Discontentment convinces us that contentment is found by acquiring something, but truthfully contentment is the...

June 2024

June 19, 2024

A Call To Commit To Church Communities Leading Quiet Lives

Last year, I attended a workshop for pastors on how to more effectively support those...

June 17, 2024

Simplest Influence: Father’s Day and the Power of Presence

This past weekend we celebrated Father’s Day, a day in which we as dads also...

June 01, 2024

Beyond Materialism: Parenting What it Means to Live Simply

Today, June 1, is the Global Day of Parents. The Global Day of Parents is...

May 2024

May 30, 2024

The Lord’s Prayer: A Help in Leading A Quiet Life

The Lord's Prayer is more or less the manifesto of Christian faith, it is a...

May 11, 2024

Lead a Quiet Life: A Costly and Sacrificial Way of Living

In pursuing what it means to ambitiously lead a quiet life, we find it is...

May 05, 2024

6 Proverbs for Ambitiously Leading a Quiet Life

This week I found myself reflecting on six profound sayings from the book of Proverbs...

April 2024

April 25, 2024

Rooted in Reality: Embracing Stillness in Digital Connection

In a digital world, I fear that we have forgotten what it means to be...

April 21, 2024

Finding Sanctuary: Embracing Authenticity in Small Church

On April 1, I celebrated two years as the pastoral leader at River Corner Church,...

April 09, 2024

Focused: A Secondary Wisdom in 1 Thessalonians 4:11

This week, I have been reflecting on a secondary wisdom of minding our own business...

March 2024

March 31, 2024

Grünewald’s Altarpiece: A Resurrection Testament to Empathy

I will speak more about Matthias Grünewald and this masterpiece a bit later in this...

March 23, 2024

Be Apart: Navigating the Tempest of Busyness with George Fox

If you are not familiar with the name George Fox, I offer a small and...

March 19, 2024

Shattered: A Testament to Authenticity in a Marketed World

In a bit, I am going to tell you about Shattered by Rip Wahlberg. Rip...

March 17, 2024

Prayer: Navigating the Tempest of Busyness with Nouwen

After rereading Here and Now by Henri J.M. Nouwen, I was reminded how much prayer...

March 05, 2024

Journeying Through Lent: An Invitation to Inventory

The church is in the Lent season, a period of reflection, repentance, and preparation leading...

February 2024

February 25, 2024

A Soundtrack for Leading a Quiet Life

Recently, this soundtrack has encouraged me to lead a quiet life. Music has consistently held...

February 23, 2024

Embracing Downward Mobility: Choosing A Different Success

Downward Mobility? For generations, upward mobility has defined the American Dream. Upward mobility defines the...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Discovering God Podcast: The Pilgrimage of Faith

For the past few months, I have been cohosting the weekly Discovering God Podcast with...

December 17, 2023

Embracing the Unfinished Journey: Insight from Martha & Mary

Sometimes when I come home and look at the many repairs that I need to...

November 2023

November 20, 2023

In Pursuit of Contentment: Lessons By Leo Tolstoy

Besides Leo Tolstoy, many books have looked to address and hold a mirror to humanity's...

November 19, 2023

Embracing Tranquility: The Art of Minding Your Own Business

This week, as I took time to contemplate the "art of minding your own business,"...

October 2023

October 30, 2023

12 Scriptures That Help Us to Lead A Quiet Life

In my previous post, I shared 12 quotes that offer an understanding of what it...

October 25, 2023

12 Quotes That Help Us to Lead A Quiet Life

Through this blog, I have started the journey towards a quiet life by studying Paul’s...

October 17, 2023

Quiet Living: The Surprising Way Doing Less Achieves More

This week, I came across an intriguing quote attributed to Craig D. Lounsbrough, that reads,...

October 14, 2023

Embracing Stillness: Paul’s Prophetic Call to a Quiet Life

The call to live a quiet life may feel both appealing and impossible in the...

October 09, 2023

Lead a Quiet Life: A Journey to Unravel the Ties of Consumerism in a World and Church Obsessed with Excess

Though it feels like a different lifetime, a few decades ago my entire existence could...