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Yoga:  While it has been known to originate from eastern religions, many Jewish spiritual institutions are using the practice of hatha yoga as a primary method of embodied experience.  Through yoga, participants are encouraged to work with physical postures, giving … Continue reading →

There is often a sense that investing into spirituality is paramount in our modern day, but the idea can feel exhausting amidst the demands of life and the strain of responsibility to jobs, family, and friends.  It is argued that … Continue reading →

Simple and true – this is what God is looking for. Not put-together or coming with complicated formula’s or confusing doctrines or approaches. He just wants you – just as you are. God understood the tendency in human nature to … Continue reading →

Faith is produced and strengthened in the absence of full understanding, in the questions, in darkness. Our desire is for it to be easy, without effort and conflict, yet what our souls really need is constant testing, confrontation and questioning. … Continue reading →

If I begin to say a verse over and over again, or sing it over and over again, eventually each word comes alive and deeper meaning springs up. God’s Spirit comes and breathes life on the words I’m saying and … Continue reading →

Meditation is one aspect of our faith that is talked about so much in Scripture but isn’t practiced. I believe that our current way of worshiping was an evolution from active meditation or corporate prayers and chants. In essence when … Continue reading →

Many of the psalms have been trivialized. When David said, “The Lord is my Shepard,” he was taking a stroll in the park, he was releasing deep levels of faith that found the rock of his salvation. David craved God, … Continue reading →

“My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” (Psalm 84:2) “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you … Continue reading →

Prayer is like conception. I’m fascinated with the whole idea of creating life. It’s mind boggling that small, alien-like cells flow from me to my wife, find an egg in waiting, fight to enter and finally in one split second … Continue reading →

Everything is discovered in Him. It’s in that place of prayer – the place of secrecy and intimacy that all the answers my heart is seeking for are found. As I pour my heart out to Him, He responds with … Continue reading →