Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship by Jeanne Halgren Kilde This book is, in the author's own encapsulation, "an extended essay on thenform, function, and meaning of Christian worship spaces, how they havenchanged over time, and what we can learn...
In The Sacred Sacrifice, Paris is proposing we use Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Lent and Easter much like we enjoy Handel's Messiah during Advent ... Read More → Bible Board Books: Tiny Hands and For the Bible Tells Me So By Janie Cheaney | Feb 6, 2024 Tiny Hands Series: Hy...
Tour the Historic Churches That Shaped Alaska’s Faith The spread of the Gospel in Alaska included the creation of sacred spaces and the historic churches throughout the Great North are enduring symbols of faith. Each one reflects the unique spiritual journey of Alaska, from its Russian Orthodox...
Temples are sacred spaces dedicated to the worship and work of Heavenly Father – which is the salvation of the human family. His work is exalting and so His House reflects His wonderful purposes in soaring Temple architecture that draws the eye, and the heart, heavenward. As people enter the...
(Eph 2:2). But these same places are also “the kingdom of God” in the form of individual Jesus communities—the “wheat” and the “weeds” inhabit the same battlespaceat the same time.To borrow a cliché from Vietnam, it’s “hearts and minds” that each kingdom is after, ...
It’s in my hands, my neck, other places in my back, my knees, and evidently my feet. I dedicated my behavior with chronic pain to serving God. But I don’t think I realized how chronic the pain would be … making me unable to walk at all without orthotics, causing me to ...
It’s left-wing ones, which cannot abide voices that dissent from their sacred ideologies. This is the way the left these days debates, too. You are called a name for being a heretic vis-a-vis the sacred ideology, and then you are treated as if you’re not even a person. Well, ...
Christ established a new reality, that to be justified by faith is a sacred identity. We are identified as Christians when we accept and appropriate the fullness of Christ. This requires a heroic response from human beings because it runs counter to human pride, the instinct for autonomy. The...
the findings evidently prove that the landscape identity of the holy places in the Islamic city is organically connected to the peripheral neighborhood and the surrounding area. In fact, sacred place is located in the heart of environ spaces as a focal place which...
I also read the liturgy and felt moved to add to it because I believe that is what powerful worship does. It moves us into deeper spaces with God and with one another. We are all in different places and spaces in both our spiritual journeys and our journeys of identity. It has taken ...