Poem: Progress
So you bought a journal…
Category: FAITH
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A Good and Holy Tension
Journaling has taught me that God is far more personal than many of us have dared to believe and that we can be fearlessly vulnerable with Him. But He is still ...
Prayer Guides: Stillness & Centering
I co-wrote these guides with my friend, Lana, who guides contemplative prayer gatherings at the Fayetteville Prayer Room. How to Spend an Hour in the Prayer Roo...
Prayer Guides: Inner Healing
I co-wrote these guides for the Fayetteville Prayer Room with my friend, Lana, who guides contemplative prayer gatherings here. For I am afflicted and needy, an...
Prayer Guides: Journaling with the Holy Spirit
I co-wrote these guides for the Fayetteville Prayer Room with my friend, Lana, who guides contemplative prayer gatherings here. Prayer Journaling with Scripture...
Prayer Guides: Imaginative Prayer
I co-wrote these guides for the Fayetteville Prayer Room with my friend, Lana, who guides contemplative prayer gatherings here. Contemplative prayer engages bot...
Prayer Guide: The Examen
I co-wrote these guides for the Fayetteville Prayer Room with my friend, Lana, who guides contemplative prayer gatherings here. The Ignatian Examen “On my bed ...
Different Ways to Worship through Song
A resource of the Fayetteville Prayer Room. The Psalmists wrote songs of praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, kingship, confidence, wisdom and lament. Modern song...
Different Kinds of Prayer
A resource at the Fayetteville Prayer Room: There are many ways to pray. Some are like stepping into the throne room or marching onto a battlefield, sword in ha...
Seven Sacred Pauses: The Age-old Tradition of Praying the Hours
Praying the hours is a tradition that began in the Tabernacle and was carried on by the early church. Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven t...
Daybreak and Midmorning Prayers
Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven times a day to sing, read Scripture, and pray in a tradition known as praying the hours. Below are litu...
Noon and Midafternoon Prayers
Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven times a day to sing, read Scripture, and pray in a tradition known as praying the hours. Below are litu...
Evensong and Compline
Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven times a day to sing, read Scripture, and pray in a tradition known as praying the hours. Below are litu...
The Nightwatch
Through the centuries, many Christians have paused seven times a day to sing, read Scripture, and pray in a tradition known as praying the hours. Below are litu...
Printable One-page Journaling Guides
Click the images below to view and print Prayer Journaling Guides from the Fayetteville Prayer Room. If you are using your phone, I recommend viewing them in &#...
Bookend Your Year with Stillness
We are silent in the early hours of each day, because God is supposed to have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep, because to God also belon...
An Invitation to the Last Supper
This piece first appeared as a daily devotional for [in]courage ministry by Dayspring. Incourage created the accompanying image. For years, I’d confess and re-c...
Journaling Vulnerably: Trust and Transformation
Many Christians settle for salvation, then wait for heaven. We read about the freedom and wholeness Jesus proclaims, and we dream about the peace and joy that s...
Journaling Vulnerably: Ask God About It
I often use my journal to pry into my own subconscious thoughts. When I am tense and don’t know why, I ask myself questions and follow the thought-train it rele...
Journaling Vulnerably: Find Solitude and Consider Your Emotions
I like to think of time in solitude as breathing in and breathing out. In solitude, BREATHE IN scripture. Expect God to speak to you personally as you read. Som...
Reflections on Our Time at Asbury
You may already know about the 2023 revival at Asbury University. A weekly chapel gathering lasted for weeks. We drove to Kentucky to experience it ourselves. W...
Journaling Scripture: The Two Pen Approach
Many of the journaling guides I have shared integrate scripture reading, but none tell how to simply use your journal in your personal Bible study. So here begi...
Journaling Scripture: Invite God to Exhort You
Exhort means “to spur on, build up and encourage… to reprove, rebuke and correct.” Some of us have trouble letting God encourage us, while some of us have...
Journaling Scripture: Write it Out Real and Raw and Deep
The Bible is full of promises, precepts and descriptors. When you read one, stop and journal it. JOURNALING SCRIPTURE’S PROMISES When I read something in ...
Journaling Scripture: Use Your Imagination
Try personalizing stories from scripture by putting yourself in the shoes of Bible characters. Whether it’s Gideon in a winepress or Mary Magdalene at the empty...
Journaling to Rest
“Cast all your cares on Him. For He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 An Invitation to Rest Once your Bible and journal are open, you are in a sacred space. Prepare y...
Journaling to Settle Anxieties
I often use my journal to pry into my own subconscious thoughts. When I am tense with worry or am nervous about a decision, I ask myself a few simple questions....
Journaling to Remember
The night before Jesus died, he told the disciples that the Holy Spirit would “teach [them] all things and bring to remembrance all that He had said to [t...
Through the Eyes of Mary Magdalene
As I read the gospel accounts of Easter week and studied a Bible commentary, Mary Magdalene stood out to me. I imagined her experience and felt her emotions alo...