A growing challenge to the way we’ve done Internet ministry in the past pertains to the discipline of reading. I discussed this at length in last
year’s appeals, but will note, once again, that ministry resources based on reading materials (books, eBooks, discussion forum) are not as much in demand as they were a few years ago. I have heard this from several others who manage ministry web sites. People don’t read like they used to. My overall book sales are 25% of what they were only three years ago, and that’s with several new titles added to the list. Something has happened during the past few years – a different kind of consumer of
digital content.
One response we have tried is to offer webinars, which feature real time interaction between a presenter and audience. I am happy to say that this has gone well. During the past year, we have sponsored several webinars, most of them by Sr. Carla Mae Streeter and myself. Attendance was good, as we charged no registration fee, requesting a free-will donation instead. This model needs further discernment, however, as the financial support has sometimes been
very light. Perhaps this appeal can help to fill in some of those gaps? I hope so.
Our webinars are archived at http://heartlandspirituality.teachable.com/ and are available free of charge, along with handouts. You will need to register a user name if you haven’t already; there’s no charge for
that, of course. You’ll also note other resources on this site that might interest you. Take your time and look around.
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Heartland Center for Spirituality
Internet Ministry
3600 Broadway
Great Bend, KS 67530 No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our
expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us. Feelings may change, and will change with our changing circumstances; doctrines and dogmas may be upset; Christian work may come to naught; prayers may seem to lose their fervency; promises may seem to fail; everything that we have believed in or depended upon may seem to be swept away, and only God is left, just God, the bare God, if I may be allowed the expression; simply and only God.
- Hannah Whitall
Smith
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1. Truly my soul finds rest in God;
my salvation comes from him.
2 Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
(Ps. 62)
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Rv 5:1-10; Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b
Lk 19:41-44
As Jesus drew near Jerusalem,
he saw the city and wept over it, saying,
“If this day you only knew what makes for peace–
but now it is hidden from your eyes.
For the days are coming upon you
when your enemies will raise a palisade
against you;
they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides.
They will smash you to the ground and your children within you,
and they will not leave one stone upon another within you
because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
Reflection on the
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“They sang a new hymn: ‘Worthy are you
…’
There is weeping over the destruction of the old and rejoicing over the birth of the new. This is the human story. We weep over the good that is lost, the blessed comfort of familiar ways and dear old things. To weep too little is to disrespect what has gone before. To weep too much is to miss the
good that is coming. Always there is good that is coming — a new song to sing to the One who promises, “Behold, I make all things new.”
“Lord Jesus, make us brave and help us trust in the Good that waits for us in the shadow of the cross.”
- by preacherexchange.com
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 30
“Two parts of Truth: the part that is open: our Saviour and our salvation;—and the part that is hid and shut up from us: all beside our salvation”
HE gave me understanding of two parts [of truth]. The one part is our Saviour and our salvation. This blessed
part is open and clear and fair and light, and plenteous,—for all mankind that is of good will, and shall be, is comprehended in this part. Hereto are we bounden of God, and drawn and counselled and taught inwardly by the Holy Ghost and outwardly by Holy Church in the same grace. In this willeth our Lord that we be occupied, joying in Him; for He enjoyeth in us. The more plenteously that we take of this, with reverence and meekness, the more thanks we earn of Him and the more speed to
ourselves, thus—may we say—enjoying our part of our Lord. The other [part] is hid and shut up from us: that is to say, all that is beside our salvation. For it is our Lord’s privy counsel, and it belongeth to the royal lordship of God to have His privy counsel in peace, and it belongeth to His servant, for obedience and reverence, not to learn wholly His counsel. Our Lord hath pity and compassion on us for that some creatures make themselves so busy therein; and I am sure if we knew how
much we should please Him and ease ourselves by leaving it, we would. The saints that be in Heaven, they will to know nothing but that which our Lord willeth to shew them: and also their charity and their desire is ruled after the will of our Lord: and thus ought we to will, like to them. Then shall we nothing will nor desire but the will of our Lord, as they do: for we are all one in God’s seeing.
And here was I learned that we shall trust and rejoice only in our Saviour, blessed Jesus, for all thing.
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