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Cynthia’s Story: The impact of a Transforming Community in the life of a pastor
My name is Cynthia and I am an ordained United Methodist pastor. Transforming Community came at the right time for me. I was looking for a spiritual director when I…
It is the Lord!
Happy Easter Monday, friends! Once again, Ruth invites us to celebrate the risen Jesus through five powerful post-resurrection encounters. We’ve reflected on these stories before, yet they continue to speak.…
Editor’s note: The following article is adapted from Dallas Willard’s forward to Invitation to Solitude and Silence (Ruth Haley Barton,…
“Lent is a time of returning to God. It is a time to confess how we keep looking for joy,…
Editor’s Note: The Transforming Center takes very seriously its mission to equip leaders to guide their churches in becoming spiritually…
“For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world and forfeit their soul?” —Jesus Recently, I made…
Solitude may be one of the greatest challenges for Christian leaders because we have this sense that everyone is waiting for us to come in and do what we can do. Solitude offers leaders a concrete way that God can come and do what only God can do—in our lives personally and also in our ministries.
It was a conversation similar to many I have had with Christian leaders. A pastor from a large church was…
Today is the day when the Christian church celebrates epiphany—the “showing forth” or “the revelation” of Christ in the world.…
God comes like the sun in the morning—when it is time. We must assume an attitude of waiting, accepting the…
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