Jesus cares about the little things, and his loving knowledge of us is the foundation of his loving relationship with us. He knows us so well that he knows exactly what we need and how we need him to interact with us in order to be able to receive it. If you don’t really know […]
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Preparing Good Questions
Good questions are a critical ingredient in all great discussions. Jesus himself was the master questioner, often responding to questions with deeper questions.[1] Questions open us to God and one another, engage us in a topic, and bring out one of the great gifts God bestowed upon humanity: an inquisitive nature that seeks after truth. […]
EC Impact: Warren
“EC training has helped me to be more comfortable and confident in sharing my faith in an organic way.” “EC training has helped me to be more comfortable and confident in sharing my faith in an organic way,” Warren, of St. Dominic’s in Brookfield, Wisconsin, explains. “There is no one way that is the right way. There are so […]
EC Impact: Kristen
“These one-on-ones helped me to recognize Jesus’ love for me for the first time and taught me that someone cared enough to share this with me and teach me.” Celebrations of Jesus’ birth, the Holy Mother, Epiphany, and the Lord’s Baptism usher in 2019 with blessings and hope. As we at the EC look back at 2018, the power of the year […]
EC Impact: Colleen
“God is truly reaching more in this work.” Colleen serves the Church and the U.S.A. as a military spouse, most recently at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. In sharing her story, she demonstrates a full-blown willingness to go where God calls—literally—and the fruitfulness of EC discipleship training in reaching those in search of God. […]
How Small Groups Build a Movement
Since the Church began, small groups have unleashed the power of the Holy Spirit in believers. Through Christians alive in the Spirit, God has transformed the world. Relational Ministry Small groups work because they are rooted in relationships, not in organizational structures or edifices. Within the relationships people want and need, they find what […]
Evangelizing through Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
Evangelizing through Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving This past Sunday as we reflected on our Lenten resolutions at my parish, our pastor encouraged me to consider resolutions that will not just benefit me but that will bear fruit for the kingdom. What if we chose resolutions that build up the kingdom in active ways? What would […]
Lenten Reflection 2016
I am on the road to an alliance, and as I sit in the rectory of a parish in a very small town in northwestern Ohio, I’m trying to come up with something profound to write for a reflection for Lent, and having prayed for days about what to write, I face my own poverty. […]
I Dreamt that My Son Died – A Good Friday Meditation
It seems eminently clear that the more perfect one’s love is, the more pain lies in wait. The longer couples date, the more the break-up hurts. The closer the relative, the more gut-wrenching the death. The more we would sacrifice for someone, the greater the hole left within us when they are gone. The more […]
Seek the Lord in the Bible Every Day… Seriously!
Does it surprise any of us that we’re in desperate need of daily spiritual nourishment? Do not our hearts hunger and thirst every day, or even every minute? Mark Rose wrote in our last EC blog entry about how we hunger for connection to people and to God. I know that I hunger for a […]