Serving Christ in a Coffee Culture
Posted in Classroom, Environment, Inspirations, Playground, Random Thoughts, Site Planning on Jul 6th, 2010
A thought provoking question was posed to me recently: “what is a distinctly “Christian” garden?” I thought I’d try to answer it in this blog to conclude the subject of gardens over the past month. It is easier to answer “what is a “Buddhist” garden?” than “what is a Christian garden”, since the garden style [...]
Posted in Bookstore, Environment, Inspirations, Playground, Random Thoughts, Worship Center on Jun 23rd, 2010
I’ve heard it said that “prayer began in a garden” (meaning the Garden of Eden), but I don’t think that’s true. In the simplest sense of the word, prayer is people communicating TO God. In Eden, there was two-way communication between God and people, what would be better termed “communion”. Prayer began when face-to-face communion [...]
Posted in Bookstore, Classroom, Environment, Inspirations, Playground, Random Thoughts on Jun 10th, 2010
Gardens are full of rich Biblical significance. There are several different uses of the term ‘garden’ in the Bible. Often it is an agricultural application, referring to vineyards, groves of fruit trees or vegetable plots. (Jeremiah 29:5 , Deuteronomy 11:10 ). In other applications, it is primarily an outdoor environment; a place of beauty for [...]
Posted in Classroom, Environment, Inspirations, Playground, Random Thoughts, Site Planning, Worship Center on Jun 2nd, 2010
When I get a new album that I really like, I tend to play it repeatedly until it plays in my head independent of any listening device. Such has been the case with Phil Wickham’s latest release, Heaven & Earth. The opening song, Eden, poetically expresses a longing to return to a place of origin [...]
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