Migration

(This reflection by Mac was originally posted on www.amongthewhitelilies.com, an online journal of meditations, reflections and guided prayer for spiritual ragamuffins, on December 16, 2012.) Winter has come to the northern hemisphere once again, and with it — the...

Discipling As A Lifestyle of Intentional Relationship

It is an honor and privilege to have our spiritual daughter Trang share with you some of her stories of her journey into a relationship with Jesus and His Kingdom, and how she is experiencing the joy of inviting some of her friends to meet Jesus and discipling them in...

The Who, What, and How of Apprenticing: Part 2

Who do we apprentice?  This is the chicken or the egg question. Which comes first? Does the mentor choose the apprentice, or does the apprentice choose the mentor? The answer is both. Ideally the mentor initiates with the apprentice. Yet in Star Wars the ‘jedi...

Why Apprenticing is the Heart of the Matter: Part 1

Over the years I have had the privilege of traveling around the world to coach leaders and their communities and teams. Again and again in every culture and context,  I have heard leaders lament over the dearth or lack of people who are willing to lead. Even Jesus...

Learning to Love the Hood

One of the things we value in the Mosaic is learning about Kingdom living from each other’s stories. Each of our stories is a piece of God’s ‘Big Story’ of bringing His Kingdom here on earth. Living out a Kingdom way of life is not primarily...

Betwixt and Between: Sojourning Through the Borderlands

  Caught between two worlds; belonging to this earth, yet feeling like strangers, misfits, or aliens from another planet. This is the nature of life in the borderlands. Pilgrims passing through, yearning for a city and country to call their own. Satisfied...

The Veil Is Thin Tonight

This poem originally appeared on the Diary of an Arts Farmer. www.diaryofanartsfarmer.com *** The veil Between heaven And earth Is thin Tonight And You My sweet Love Are most alluring Evasively intoxicating Stretched out Upon the horizon In rapturous Beguiling beauty...