Monthly Archives: July 2016

On the Radio this Week – Walk the Way

On the Radio this Week – Walk the Way

This is Walk the Way, brought to you by Q Place, I’m Jeff Klein. And I’m Pam Klein. My summer book club just read a lovely novel about a French bookstore owner who sells books from a floating barge on the Seine river. But he’s gifted. Jean Perdu can literally prescribe just the right book for anyone to help mend their broken hearts and souls. Of course, the only person he can’t heal is himself, but you’ll have to read the story for yourself to find out more. Among all the things I enjoyed about this book, I found the...Read more …
Listen with Your Eyes

Listen with Your Eyes

Twenty years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron discovered that four minutes of looking into another person’s eyes could bring people closer. When I first saw the video that Amnesty Poland produced based on this theory, I watched it, mesmerized. The film experiment, conducted in Berlin, shows what happened when refugees and Europeans sat opposite each other and looked into each other’s eyes. The participants were ordinary people. The situations weren’t staged and the beautiful reactions were natural and spontaneous. A smile creeps across a mouth, a tear wells up, a heavy sigh is breathed, a greeting of hello murmured, and compliments, attempts at...Read more …
What Journalism Taught Me about Evangelism

What Journalism Taught Me about Evangelism

Some of the things she talked about, she had never told anyone—she said to me as we were getting ready to leave. My friend and I were having lunch together on a Saturday afternoon in our college café after working at a convention the college hosted for high school students. Our intent was to grab a quick lunch, leave, and get on with our own things for the rest of the day. But the opposite happened. We sat for more than four hours simply having a conversation. It started off casual. We talked about the convention. We talked about our...Read more …
On the Radio this Week – Walk the Way

On the Radio this Week – Walk the Way

  • Posted on July 22, 2016
  • /Under Praying
This is Walk the Way. Brought to you by Q Place. I’m Jeff Klein. When I was a kid, I was lucky enough to see Barnum and Bailey’s Circus more than once. My favorite—the clowns. My second favorite—the elephants. But the most nerve racking were those crazy acrobats who would perch on that small platform at the top of the stadium, ready for some death defying stunt. I remember the tension. No one was sure where to look, but then, all at once, a giant spotlight would direct our eyes to the ceiling where the acrobat was perched. The light...Read more …
Before you hit the ground running.

Before you hit the ground running.

  • Posted on July 20, 2016
  • /Under Praying
I’m not a morning person. But there’s something about summer that gets me up and moving. I love the warmth and the light. It’s my season. (Don’t want to even think about the fact that it’s just about half over!) And this summer, I’ve been trying something new. Every day. Well, certainly trying every day. Old habits die hard. I’m a doer. Doers do. But before I hit the ground running to do all my doing, I’m attempting to have a conversation with God so that I can give Him my day.  A day, actually, that He laid out for me. Psalm...Read more …
He. Just. Wants. Us.

He. Just. Wants. Us.

  • Posted on July 18, 2016
  • /Under Praying
It was unsatisfactory, my prayer life. It had been that way too long. No amount of sincere desire had yet caused me to set aside the time I needed to in order to do what every Christian should be doing. (Shouldn’t they?) Times intended for prayer got interrupted with phone calls I suddenly remembered to return, or errands that were urgent. Prayer was neglected. It was Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, that gave me the impetus to renew my effort. I scheduled the “big rock” of prayer into my calendar so that it didn’t get lost...Read more …
On the Radio this Week – Walk the Way

On the Radio this Week – Walk the Way

  • Posted on July 15, 2016
  • /Under Noticing
This is Walk the Way, brought to you by Q Place, I’m Jeff Klein. Our friend, Charlie, talks about being a dorm parent in a school in Venezuela many years ago. He was driving a 7-passenger van full of students back into the town where the school was located. A storm had just passed through and Charlie noticed a branch that had blown down, blocking the sidewalk. At the same time, he also noticed a blind man walking down that sidewalk unaware of the fallen limb. Charlie immediately stopped, helped the man around the obstacle and returned to the van,...Read more …
Just slow it down.

Just slow it down.

  • Posted on July 13, 2016
  • /Under Noticing
I have been gobbling up Kent Annan’s new book Slow Kingdom Coming this summer, especially his thoughts on paying attention and how that practice is so closely linked to slowing down. Did you know scientific studies show that our brains pay better attention if—even just three times a day—we slow down to meditate for five minutes? Certainly, as Kent writes, spiritual disciplines—like those in Richard Foster’s work, Celebration of Discipline—help to cultivate attention. Kent provides his own anecdotal evidence based on the time he decided to intentionally practice slowing down, retreating at a Benedictine monastery and pausing throughout the day for times...Read more …
“Stop! I don’t have to listen to this!”

“Stop! I don’t have to listen to this!”

When a Christian engages someone in a spiritual conversation, the “Good News” doesn’t always feel good … but it doesn’t have to be that way! Watch and listen as Q Place president, Mary Schaller, shares how The 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations can transform the way you talk about God with people who believe differently. How to Be Good News from Q Place on Vimeo.Read more …
On the Radio this Week – Walk the Way

On the Radio this Week – Walk the Way

This is Walk the Way, brought to you by Q Place, I’m Jeff Klein. And I’m Pam Klein. As I braced myself for the last final incline on my short run before church, I noticed a group of dads setting up for some sort of race. They had barricaded off the street and right in the middle at the top of the hill, was a line-up of homemade derby cars. A little girl sat inside each one, waiting for a nudge down while someone at the bottom timed how long it would take them to get to the finish line....Read more …
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