Author name: Jim Reiter

I’ve told some of you the [very true] story of an Associate Pastor, offering a Pastoral Prayer on Mother’s Day.  Along the lines of the denominational Book of Worship, the prayer gave thanks for those who’d been good mothers and…

At the church I attended this last weekend, it was “Recovery Sunday” – a time to celebrate those in recovery from various addictions… and the God-given dynamics/programs bringing them to that healing. Mike, a 12-Stepper (sober, now, for 28 years)…

44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.  45 “Again, the kingdom…

A friend shared a post from Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation the other day.  (I highly recommend it, by the way.  You can click here to access and sign up.) In the post, Rohr took considerable space and time quoting from…

As suggested on our home page, C.S. Lewis helps to illuminate both our name and our mission at “Zoe-Life Explorations,” writing… …what man, in his natural condition, has not got, is Spiritual life—the higher and different sort of life that…

A:  Some can.   Some can’t. posted by Jim Reiter on August 15, 2018…

Citing Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944), J. Keith Miller suggests the difference between Sin (with a capital S) and sin(s): At an existential, everyday level of thinking, sin is thought to refer to “bad things one does” such as theft adultery,…

It’s the gist of the question I was asked the other day over lunch, with a pastor friend: “how do you define spiritual formation?” For some, the answer is as quick and easy as associating spiritual formation with “discipleship.”  And,…