Christ-centered meditation and prayer is a devotional spiritual practice of surrendering to the heart of God — the unconditional love located in our hearts. Christ is in everyone from the beginning of time as a divine spark of light, life, and love. The goal of our...
I didn’t grow up in the church. Church was a place to visit on special occasions, like weddings, funerals, or baptisms. As a kid, I wasn’t invited to many of those, which kept church and God off my radar for years. In a strange twist, it was a TV evangelist of all...
The first time I ran away from home, I was four. My older brother, Michael, was six at the time. For years I followed him everywhere. He walked, I walked behind him. He ran, I ran. I looked up to him, and I obeyed him. My parents thought it was very cute how we would...
Yoga phobia is a real issue, especially among conservative Christian groups. Yoga phobia is a fear of integrating a practice or set of beliefs incompatible with one’s own religious and moral beliefs. The fear is completely understandable and respectable. The potential...
Throughout life, we use the word grief to describe a wide range of responses to an even wider range of circumstances. But what actually is grief? Grief is a natural response to a change or loss of something you once had in your life or to something you wanted but...
Christ-centered meditation is different from other secular forms of meditation. Christ-centered meditation aims for those who practice it to find Christ, who lives at the center of every human being. Like other secular meditation or mindfulness practices,...
