The latest Alban Institute newsletter contains this helpful exercise:
Reflecting with God
1. Naming the Experience: Choosing an event on which to reflect
Choose an event, a moment, a conversation, or a situation. As you recall the event, ask yourself:
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Had to laugh at this comment from dave paisley on one of Leighton’s posts about a Purpose Driven Life:

At least PDL isn’t the Prayer of Jabez.
Ye Gods, has there ever been a more materialistic mountain been made out of a spiritual molehill?
Well, maybe the Jim and Tammy Faye glory days of the 80s…
I […]

I was nudged by Paul’s post on liturgy and ritual to share some thoughts about rituals in new church models.
A couple of years ago I went to an orthodox greek christening and found the rituals fascinating. We were listening to the words of the priest (thankfully in English) and the actions during the christening […]

I wanted to point out a great site which I have come to really enjoy, The Alternative Hymnal.
I have a series of CDs which I have burnt from my own collection entitled non-christian christian music. I generally have very little time for christian christian music - it tends to be pretty middle of the […]

I really liked this idea of cosmic jeopardy from Lingering Lemon of Death, so I am posting it here so that I can remember to steal it later sometime:

all around the room, giant pieces of white paper were stuck to the walls. everybody had pens. the rules: write the answer to the question on the […]

Another adapted reading from the elective by Merril Kitchen on reading the bible missionally. The other reading can be found here.
Jesus went back to his home town in the bush one day and fronted up at his old church. He did the bible reading that day and read from Isaiah,
“The Spirit of the Lord is […]

At the recent conference I attended with Alan Roxburgh as the guest speaker. I went to an elective run by Merril Kitchen who is the Principal at our theological college. The elective was called - ‘reading the Gospel’s missionally’. It was very worthwhile and I will post up a few more reflections about it soon.
A […]

A quick thanks to Luke for this post. In the true spirit of the emerging church, I stole his idea, changed it a bit and used it for haven last night, whilst passing it off as my own work.
Our “normal” congregational worship tends to be quite discussion based so we really appreciate the ones […]

[if I find that anyone searches for yoda+prayer and comes to this site because of it, my brain will fuse]
The other night at Haven we tried a new exercise for bible reading for Mary’s Song of Praise in Luke 1:46-55. The task is to rewrite each phrase or verse in ‘Yoda’ language. Now, […]

We continue our series on exploring our seven spiritual disciplines. Each week, we have been allowing a ’spiritual hero’ to challenge us. For our spiritual discipline of ‘managing our money’, St Francis of Assisi was chosen to stretch us.

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone was born in 1182, Assisi, Italy, to a rich and noble […]