Not an Exercise, but Good Info

I know I’ve been reserving Thursdays for a spiritual fitness exercise, but today I want to share something I’ve learned this past week. I had heard of CaringBridge but never utilized it before this past week.

Free, personalized websites that support and connect loved ones during critical illness, treatment and recovery.

Through my seminary studies and [...]

An Exercise: A Spiritual “Shout-Out”

Yup, I’m hooked, hooked on the Discovery Channel’s game show “CASH CAB”.

This guy is the show’s host, Ben Bailey. The premise of the show is simple, you get in the cab, Ben asks general knowledge questions for the duration of the ride and you get cash for correct answers. The only catch is [...]

An Exercise: Spinning Plates

I may be dating myself here, but today’s Thursday Spiritual Fitness Exercise is “Spinning Plates”. My memory of spinning plates, a sort of juggling act, came as a kid watching the Ed Sullivan Show. A man would come on stage and proceed to place spinning plates on the end of a long pole [...]

An Exercise: Honesty

Welcome to our Thursday afternoon “spiritual fitness exercise gathering”. I made a commitment at the annual MCPA Executive Training Institute prayer breakfast to make an exercise post every Thursday afternoon. The goal being to create a regular and consistent spiritual fitness gathering for public safety professionals, even if it is in a cyber [...]

An Exercise: Looking for Spiritual Texts

As many of you are aware, I am pursuing ordination as an ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) pastor. As part of that process I am currently taking three seminary classes: Preaching II, Old Testament Prophets, and Pastoral Care. Yesterday I was doing some work for my Pastoral Care class and came upon [...]