Prayer & Meditation Posts

By focusing our minds on Scripture in set times of meditation, we engage the ignition key of attention and open ourselves to the work of the Spirit who brings “life and peace” (Romans 8:6).

Anyone in recovery from addiction and/or anyone helping others in recovery knows the importance of confession.

In this series of posts about prayer, meditation, and mindfulness, I wanted to pause with a note of encouragement for those who are or have been discouraged in prayer.

Many people come to counseling with some level of doubt about the benefit of spiritual disciplines, or means of grace as they are called in my tradition.

In part II in this series on prayer and meditation I mentioned the practice of combining slow awareness of breath with the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me”.

Meditation is a thoroughly biblical practice.

As a Christian counselor frequently working with Christian clients, I often wonder what assumptions my clients have about those words and practices. Unfortunately they can be loaded terms.

Jesus calls his disciples to combat stinking thinking with sinking thinking: thinking that sinks deeper into minds and hearts through meditation.

Christians have struggled with balancing the mind and the body, the spiritual and the physical, ever since the early gnostic heresies of the early church. Engaging in holistic practice restores prayer to its proper biblical position and transformative potential.

Eyes must be open to see light.

“From time immemorial prayer has been spoken of as the breath of the soul. And the figure is an excellent one indeed.” Ole Hallesby

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