Exploration Resources

Check out our Sunday messages from Jubilee: The Year of Radical Release here.

This December we are practicing repentance as a way of realigning ourselves with the Kingdom of God. Please find a prayer of confession here that walks through our different practices of release this year.

Contemplative Christmas Resources: If you only engage wiht one of these resources, choose this one. Mike Erre and Matthew Sorens sit down to discuss immigration and the Bible. Listen here.

Contemplative Christmas Resources: Find a guide to Centering Prayer here.

Contemplative Christmas Resources: Find a guide to Imaginative Prayer here. We walked through Luke 2 as a group.

Contemplative Christmas Resources: Painting by Josep Cusachs, 1904. From Monserrat Monastery. View the painting here.

Contemplative Christmas Resources: Illustration by Everett Patterson, 2014. View the illustration here.

Contemplative Christmas Resources: 40 Days of Scripture and Prayer. Print off this bookmark to follow along.

Exploration Sunday Resources: Dr. Robert Chao Romero’s book, Brown Church. Find it here.

Check out our Sunday messages from Jubilee: The Year of Radical Release here.

Kelly Latimore (@kellylatimoreicons) (American, 1986–), “The Parable of the Mustard Seed,” 2023. Acrylic, Flashe, and gold leaf on board, 24 × 22 in. https://kellylatimoreicons.com

In October, our formation practice is Releasing Comfort. Find a guide here.

Shaleen Camery-Hoggatt’s guide focuses on rooting our identity in our belovedness. Find the guide here to sit with Zephaniah 3:17 as the Nolfs did during sabbatical.

Find a link to Christian counseling here.

Part of Moses and Christine’s sabbatical playlist, the song You Say is another resource rooting our identity in Christ. Find it wherever you stream music.

In August, our formation practice is Releasing Distractions. Find a guide here.

Find these Journey of Generosity videos that Ryan Zeulner, our August Exploration Guest, shared with us this month. Find the videos here.

In July, we kicked off Part 2 of our exploration of Jubilee with “The Kingdom of God is Like…” and introduced our Formation Practice of Releasing Self-Reliance. Find a guide here.

Check out our Sunday messages from Jubilee: The Year of Radical Release here.

For our February practice we are practicing releasing fear using Welcoming Prayer. Find a guide here.

In May our Formation Practice is Releasing Generosity. Find our formation guide here.

The Right Side Up Podcast with Danielle Strickland offers thought-provoking conversations that challenge conventional thinking, exploring topics such as justice, spirituality, and societal transformation through the lens of faith and compassion. Find it here.

Makoto Fujimura calls all creators and cultural stewards to nurture society’s soul through beauty, creativity, and generosity, inspiring a shared responsibility to heal and transform culture for future generations. Find it here.

Throughout Lent we have been practicing Releasing Control. Our practice of releasing control in April is through forgiveness. Find a guide here.

Find the book by Walter Brueggemann here, or the podcast of Brueggemann discussing the book here.

In March, and throughout Lent, our Formation Practice centers around Releasing Control. Our first practice of releasing control is through Sabbath. Find a guide here.

Releasing Peace is our formation practice this June. As you’re considering where you could use more peace in your own life, use this guide to take inventory of the different areas of your life. Where do you need Jesus’ intentionality and power?

From Tricia Hersey, the celebrated founder of the Nap Ministry and author of Rest Is Resistance, this deck of 50 powerful rest practices helps you embrace rest as a form of radical communal care and personal liberation. Find it here.

Check out this resource of excerpts from Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

Find it on Apple Music here.

Check out our Sunday messages from Jubilee: The Year of Radical Release here.

Written by Adam Gustine and Jose Humphreys III. This book serves as an overview of Jubilee and its application for today. Find it here.

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