Summer Reading Program–Week Five

Grace Church Summer Reading Program: Lord, Make My Life a Miracle by Ray and Anne Ortlund. Chapter Five: “Put it together with other believers” Do you have a tribe? Although there are some significant gaps in my family’s known genealogy, we do know that we have a close connection to the Cheyenne and Blackfoot Indian nations. Sometimes the tribal longing of my Native American bloodline still stirs…

Summer Reading Program–Week Four

Grace Church Summer Reading Program: Lord, Make My Life a Miracle by Ray and Anne Ortlund. Chapter Four: “Worship in public” One of my favorite places in the world to be is a high quality worship service. I love gatherings where the worship team is able to draw me almost irresistibly in to God’s presence. I love it when the music and the singing touch my soul,…

Summer Reading Program–Week Three

Grace Church Summer Reading Program: Lord, Make My Life a Miracle by Ray and Anne Ortlund. Chapter Three: “Worship in private” Have you ever really worshipped? Have you ever experienced the presence of God in such a way that it stirred the deepest core of who you are, and compelled you to either dance, bow, weep, or fall prostrate in awe? Have you ever worshipped in the…

Summer Reading Program–Week Two

Grace Church Summer Reading Program: Lord, Make My Life a Miracle by Ray and Anne Ortlund. Chapter Two: “Be God-Centered” What is a “divine breathing”? According to Ray and Anne Ortlund it is a sense or awareness or a washing in the reality and nearness of God. In the second chapter of their book, Lord, Make My Life a Miracle, they shared a quote from Thomas Kelly…

Summer Reading Program–Week One

Grace Church Summer Reading Program: Lord, Make My Life a Miracle by Ray and Anne Ortlund. Introduction and Chapter One: “Live with God” Welcome to our 2012 Grace Church summer reading program. I’m so happy that you’re joining me again. Over the past three summers we have read Francis Chan’s Crazy Love and Forgotten God, and Wayne Cordeiro’s The Divine Mentor. Each of these books was…