Do You Receive Communion? Depending on your perspective, you may call the sacrament that Jesus started as Communion, Holy Communion, the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, or Holy Eucharist. Other labels include the Blessed Sacrament and the Sacrament...
Book Review: From Times Square to Timbuktu From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) What does the future of the Christian church look like? The...
News Release: Peter DeHaan Writes about Transformation in New Book The Transformation Project: A West Michigan Word Weavers Anthology includes Personal Essay from Peter DeHaan. Mattawan, Michigan, December 10, 2013—Peter DeHaan’s personal essay...
What Do You Expect When You Pray? When you make a bold prayer, what do you expect? Do you anticipate God will answer your request, or do you brace yourself for disappointment? More to the point, are you more surprised when your prayers are...
Do Ezekiel’s Words in the Bible Apply to Us Today? Ezekiel was a prophet at a time when the people had little to do with God. God told him what to say and do. Sometimes the Holy Spirit would physically move Ezekiel to show him things. In Ezekiel...
I Scream Sunday I don’t listen to music much anymore. I find it more distracting than helpful. But when I did listen, my preferences fell a bit out of mainstream. The band, One Bad Pig, proves my point. Let’s just say their music is an acquired...
Happy Thanksgiving Today, in the United States, we celebrate Thanksgiving, a time to give thanks for all we have. However, it’s morphed into a day of eating too much, watching football on television, and maybe even starting Christmas shopping. No...
Pray Without Ceasing: My Quest to Pray Throughout My Day I don’t think I’ll ever spend the majority of my day in God’s presence like Brother Lawrence or pray nonstop like Paul. But I can learn to pray more often, so I seek to remain open to my...
God’s Creative Force Jeremiah provides a succinct summary of God’s creative force: power, knowledge, and wisdom. Through it, he established the entire universe, our physical realm of existence. Power: God is a god of power. He is all-powerful...
Being in God’s Presence In the diminutive book, The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence shares his experience of essentially living much of his life while in the presence of God. For most of his adulthood, Brother Lawrence worked as...
