This three week study will touch on a variety of themes related to Christian prayer: * Definitions * Jesus' teachings on prayer * Prayer and spirituality * Prayer and faith * Types of prayer * Methods of prayer * Aids and supports
in prayer * Dealing with distractions * Prayer in the early Church * Communal prayer methods * Encounter with Eastern meditative methods * Other topics surfacing in discussions
Participants will be encouraged to take times for prayer each day and to journal about their prayer experiences. An end-of-day examen will also be recommended.
Book of the
Week
If Life is a Game, These are the Rules,by Cherie Carter-Scott. Broadway Books, 1998.
At age 25, the author went through a pre-mature midlife crisis. She had started teaching to please her mother, and soon discovered that that was not for her. She prayed earnestly for guidance, and received this message: “You are a catalyst for discovery. You will work in growth and development. You have a gift for working with people.” That didn’t seem to give much guidance, but eventually she began working
with people and helped them to discover “their own messages.” In this book, Cherie hopes you will align yourself with your own spiritual DNA and fulfill all your dreams. She offers ten rules she believes necessary to be fully human. She suggests that this book will support you and those you love in the journey of life. She calls it a primer for higher consciousness. “There are no mistakes, only lessons. A lesson is repeated until learned. Learning does not end. Others are only mirrors of you.
What you make of your life is up to you. All your answers are inside you.”
His belief that no lay ruler has jurisdiction over the Church of Christ cost Thomas More his life.
Beheaded on Tower Hill, London, on July 6, 1535, he steadfastly refused to approve Henry VIII’s divorce and remarriage and establishment of the Church of England.
Described as “a man for all seasons,” More was a literary
scholar, eminent lawyer, gentleman, father of four children and chancellor of England. An intensely spiritual man, he would not support the king’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Nor would he acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church in England, breaking with Rome and denying the pope as head.
More was committed to the Tower of London to await trial for treason: not swearing to the Act of Succession and the Oath of Supremacy. Upon conviction, More declared he had all the councils of Christendom and not just the council of one realm to support him in the decision of his conscience.
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A type is a representation by one thing of another. Adam was a type of Christ (Rom. 5:14) and so was Isaac (Heb. 11:19). The Passover was a type of Christ (1 Cor. 5:7). There are many such types in the Bible.
A man is going skydiving for the first time. After listening to the instructor for what seems like days, he is ready to go.
The man goes up in the airplane and waits to get to the proper altitude. Excited, he jumps out of the airplane. After a bit, he pulls the ripcord. Nothing happens. He tries again. Still nothing. He starts to panic, but remembers his back-up chute. He pulls that cord. Nothing happens. He frantically begins pulling
both cords, but to no avail.
Suddenly, he looks down and he can't believe his eyes. Another man is in the air with him, but this guy is going up! Just as the other guy passes by, the skydiver, by this time scared out of his wits, yells, "Hey, do
you know anything about skydiving?" The other guy yells back, "No! Do you know anything about gas stoves?"
