inner space-outer space, cleaning up my praying space

Back from vacation Up North (f you seek a pleasant peninsula–look about you!).  Spent all day yesterday cleaning up my home office, where my praying space is.   In Mystically Wired I have a little section on making a physical space for prayer in your home or apartment and keeping that one spot clear for prayer.   No paying bills or arguing with your wife in that space.  A set apart place.
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advice to young pastors: the wisdom of y’all

Just got back from a sweet time in Sugar Land, Texas, home to the Sugar Land Vineyard and the headquarters of Vineyard: A Community of Churches.  It’s the deep South.  Tom DeLay’s old congressional district.  Senior Pastor of the Sugar Land Vineyard is Reagan Waggoner, named after you know who.  A talented younger pastor who has the Jesus nerve to teach on social justice.  A church I’d gladly attend every Sunday.  And a place I learned the wisdom of that Southern phrase, “y’all.”
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