Let these stones be a witness to what we have done here this day.

Spiritual Disciplines

Spiritual Disciplines: Worship

Oct 9th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

[Note: I'll be blogging the Tulsa Metro Association (The World's Most Missional Association) Annual Meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. It is not a LIVE blog (does that make it dead blogging?) but it will be fairly extensive. I will not blog the reports in detail. You're welcome. I will blog the interaction with Frank Page [...]



Spiritual Disciplines: Confession

Oct 2nd, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

Almost done now. The Spiritual Disciplines Blogging Crew hosted by Joe Kennedy has but four measly posts before our long journey is done. Check it out. Confession. I remember vividly when I found out what the word “confession” actually means. You see, in our culture, we equate confession with the telling of something unknown – [...]



Spiritual Disciplines: Service

Sep 25th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

Check out the full crew of Spiritual Disciplines bloggers at Joe Kennedy’s fraggelriffic blog, Word’s Are Not Enough: Live from New Orleans. Every person is a leader. We all lead, but the question is always “Which way are you leading?” Another pertinent question is “How are you leading?” 24When the ten heard about this, they [...]



Spiritual Disciplines: Submission

Sep 18th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

Joe Kennedy’s list of bloggers blogging the Spiritual Disciplines. Submission. Well, I don’t know anybody who is really good at this. We all have a bent toward our own selfish motives. It’s the sin in us that desires that we have what we want at the exclusion of what everyone else wants and even what [...]



Spiritual Disciplines: Solitude

Sep 11th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: General Christian, Spiritual Disciplines

Consider here the traditional toss to Words Are Not Enough: Live From New Orleans from Joe Kennedy. There you will find a list of the bloggers and their subsequent posts on the various Spiritual Disciplines to date. Gracias. Solitude. This discipline is much akin to Silence for many reasons, most obvious. If I struggle with [...]



Spiritual Disciplines: Silence

Sep 4th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

As always, check out the full list of bloggers who are blogging the Spiritual Disciplines at Joe Kennedy’s blog, Words are not Enough, Live From New Orleans. Silence. I have an amazing dynamic tension between silence and noise. I can’t concentrate with noise. I do so much better when I have silence. Even soft music [...]



Spiritual Disciplines: Simplicity

Aug 28th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

As always, check out the other articles from those folks blogging the spiritual disciplines at Words Are Not Enough, live from New Orleans; aka Joe Kennedy’s blog. Simplicity. Hmm. Frankly I’ve never really pursued simplicity. It is not that I don’t think it worthy. Just the opposite. I think the simplistic lifestyle is a very [...]



Spiritual Disciplines: Journaling

Aug 21st, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

As always, check out the others blogging the Disciplines at Joe Kennedy’s place. I was first introduced to the concept of Journaling in seminary when I read Bill Hybel’s book, Honest to God. It was one of Bill’s first, if not THE first, and it was my first introduction to a guy who would become [...]



Spiritual Disciplines: Study

Aug 14th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

Study. I guess it should be said that proper study is of the Word – our canon of Scriptures. I am not against the reading of other things inspirational, but would not define such as a “discipline.” Learning styles, I think, dictate how we best study the Word. Not all are good readers, which is [...]



Spiritual Discipline: Fasting

Aug 7th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Spiritual Disciplines

As always, you can check on the updates for others blogging the Spiritual Disciplines at Joe Kennedy’s place. I agreed to write about fasting for two reasons: 1) I have done it on numerous occasions as part of my Spiritual Journey, and 2) I am terrible at it. I thought you might have the benefit [...]