This SACRED way of Life can change your life, the way of your life, your whole way of being – it has radically changed, reoriented, revolutionised mine. 

This is a discipline to carry far past these last 40 some days together. A discipline that leads to an intentional way of living On The Way.

We long to keep walking with you “On the Way” – in the Way Himself. We have been deeply moved by so many of you who have reached out to share with us what this audio journey has meant to you, how Jesus has met you here, how He’s doing deep, miraculous real work within you … 

We have prayed and listened and leaned into where our Abba Father is leading...

WayFarer on the Way – can I turn to you on this Sunday morning coming and ask: 

What if the chamber of His heart in that clammy tomb hadn’t begun to quiver and spark and rise in the silent dark? 

What if his heart hadn’t pounded against His chest like He was pounding at the door of our own tomb, because letting Him in, is our only way out?

What if His scar-mangled hands hadn’t taken the slow careful moments to fold His grave clothes, like He was tenderly dressing our wounds, wrapping our rawest places so new rising hope can always unfold in us?

What if His eyes hadn’t flickered open in the pitch dark, the only glimmer of real light in the entire galaxy, like stars to guide us home instead of being trapped in a strangling black?

What if there was no place to go with all this ache in being human? What if Jesus hadn’t taken us?

((Special thanks to David Nevue for the beautiful piano melodies to our journey.))

WayFarer on the Way – here we are, on maybe the hardest, darkest, saddest day of History, of every calendar year, the Saturday in between, the day after the crucifixion, when it seemed like God got killed, like all Hope seems lost and the dark seems so thick. Nothing went as the disciples had imagined: Their Messiah isn’t sitting on a throne – He is lying dead in a tomb. 

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WayFarer on the Way, today, your name is on Jesus’ lips... whatever way you have come to this point, whatever you are facing right now, you aren't ever forgotten & you only have to just look into Jesus' face  today & you know that He knows your Via Dolorosa, He knows your staggering, unspoken way of suffering, and today, Good Friday, Jesus turns with the weight of that cross He's carrying, and He looks you in the eye & that cross that's breaking His back, it's the weight of wet wood -- the weight of every tear we've ever cried – He’s carrying it and it’s breaking His heart --- so yours could be healed. 

Wayfarer, here we are – on the Thursday of holy Week, and on Maundy Thursday,  and Jesus, the God-Man with His own termination date, with an expiration of less than twelve hours, what does Jesus count as all most important? 

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WayFarer on the Way with the WayMaker, are you on the Way with Jesus who began Passion Week, Holy Week, by turning over all of the tables in our interior temples so that we can turn to Him, to be with Him?

And did you then follow Jesus out of the temple, out of the city of Jerusalem by Tuesday afternoon, as Jesus led His disciples out to the Mount of Olives, due east of the Temple, to that mount that over looks the city of Jerusalem, where the disciples turned to Jesus as He begins to prophesy over the coming destruction of Jerusalem...

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Friend, on the Way, you can see it today with the eyes of your heart, at the beginning of Holy Week, how Jesus came in the most unexpected way, a king atop a lowly donkey, amidst the shouts of Hosanna - God save us, Hosanna, God save us. 

A triumphal entry on Sunday, followed by a troubled exit out of the temple on the Monday. That is where the Monday of Holy Week found Jesus – and where this moment finds us.

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WayFarer, here you are! Finishing this last week of keeping company with Jesus, before we walk with King Jesus into Holy Week. 

As you navigate waves, eyes on the One who walked on waves, who has your name etched on His hands, who carried your burden to the cross and bore them for you – you can know this about your waves: 

“Seeing that a pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness,” writes JOHN CALVIN 

And our hearts rise with the Psalmist: “You rule the raging of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them.” — PSALM 89:9 

So together, we keep returning to it every day, to what King Jesus asked His disciples to examine in their own hearts, out in the middle of a storm: “Why are you so afraid?” (Mark 4:40).

No question may matter more. 

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My friend, WayFarer on the way, whatever concern or worry or fear may be lurking at the edge of your thoughts today, you can trust Jesus, the only One who has ever loved you to death and back to the realest life. It’s only endless trust in God that can end fear. 

As you take time today, to intentionally still, attend, cruciform your thoughts, seek a fresh revelation of God, and examine your heart for any fears lingering there – you can truly rest easy. Whatever desert you may be fearing up in the future the truth is: 

Deserts are places of dependence on God. Deserts are not places where God deserts you but a place deserted of noise so you can hear a word from God. 

WayFarer walking with the way Himself – you are walking so bravely down hard roads that no one fully even knows about, fighting battles that no one really sees. 

As you examine your heart this week, and ask yourself what Jesus asks  his followers “What are you so afraid of?” (Mark 4:40) – do you hear the Way Himself speaking to you, a fresh revelation from His Word: 

"Fear nothing—not wild wolves in the night, not flying arrows in the day, Not disease that prowls through the darkness, not disaster that erupts at high noon... because God is your refuge." (Ps. 91 MSG). 

 How are you, my friend… how are you navigating on the Way, with the Way, in the Way? Wherever you are right now, you can trust it: There is always a way through – because the Way Himself gave Himself to you. Went all the way to the cross to give Himself to you. To you, for you. You have more than a way through – you have The Way Himself. 

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Wayfarer on the Way! I know it, it can be easy to examine the ways of others, examine the noise of the world, examine the life of the neighbors or examine the streams of Instagram or Facebook, or examine the headlines, all so much easier than examining our own hearts.

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WayFarer on the Way – as we walk this 5th week of Lent with Jesus, our suffering Saviour, who is walking toward Calvary, with all of our sorrows and tears and heartache and heartbreak filling His heart with love… might we still first – to know that He is God. Always first stillness – stillness is our strength – because it’s our way of saying that we trust Him still.

That attentiveness – who do we say that He is? He is our suffering Savior – who enters into all our suffering, bears all our suffering to save us – and He is our Wounded Healer. By His stripes we are healed. Attending to where are we coming from right now – and where are we going? Are we coming from deep sadness and loss? Are we coming from concern and confusion? Are we coming from hurry and worry? Attend to where our soul is at – and where our soul is going? Are we going with Jesus on the Way – whatever way He leads? What do we want – do we want most – whatever Way He wants most and deems is best?

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WayFarer! Brave Heart! FRIEND! Throughout the season of Lent, our Sundays are days of celebration, days not of fasting and letting go, but of letting ourselves feast, feast on the manna of the Word and the Way Himself and we will simply read and reflect and be re-stored and re-storyed by the Word himself: 

Today, the fifth Sunday of Lent, we turn to – what it means for us to examine our souls and see whether more faith lives within us than fear. What does it mean intentionally live a life that examines our fears so that we can pass the test of faith. 

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My fellow WayFarer on the Way:

If anyone is thirsty, let him come not

to the habit of going to the tap of distraction, 

Or to the immediate gratification fridge, 

or out to the water well of modern escapism, 

where you keep swallowing it down but never feel well,

but come, come to the Word & pitcher & beauty of Jesus

& drink deep & long,

to the soul's quenching content.

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Friend, here you are! Walking into a new Way of Life – as you walk with the Way Himself toward Calvary, as you learn how to still your soul, how to be attentive to where your soul is in relation to God, how to live cruciform – as you seek a fresh revelation of God every day in his Word – as he reveals more of Himself who is the Way through the world. 

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WayFarer! Friend! Whatever you are still facing – right now still. Attend to who God is, where you’re coming from, and what you want. And right now, surrender it all with an open hand, open heart, living cruciform, reaching out to God and people.  This is the way – we follow Jesus on the Way. 

And now – do you have a fresh revelation of God today from His Word – so you know your direction today through the world? 

We can only stay on the right way – when we stay in His Story.

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WayFarer on the Way – you are not alone. Life is hard not because you’ve done something wrong, but because you are human and being human is hard in a world of wrongs. 

And the way through always, simply, quietly, begins here: Don't try to face the day, until you've sought the face of God.

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Wayfarer on the Way! We get to begin again – and where do we always begin, but always we first begin with stillness  — be still – and know that He is God. And then attentiveness – attend to who do you say God is – attend to where is your soul coming from – and where is your soul going to? And attend to what does your soul really want? And then we always turn to what does it mean to live cruciform today – what can I let go of, surrender, to live formed and shaped like a cross? 

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WayFarer! Brave Heart! FRIEND! Throughout the season of Lent, our Sundays are days of celebration, days not of fasting and letting go, but of letting ourselves feast, feast on the manna of the Word and the Way Himself and we will simply read and reflect and be re-stored and re-storyed by the Word himself: 

Today, the fourth Sunday of Lent, we turn to – what it means for our days and heart to seek a revelation of the Triune God – to live in a way that stays awake to how God is revealing Himself in the Word and the world. 

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This forming our days cruciform – living the posture of outstretched arms in the form of a cross, hearts wide open, open to God, and open to His people, this is a life living and loving vulnerably, accepting the risk of heartbreak in order to live that way of The Way Himself. 

What might it look like today to love cruciform? 

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Fellow WayFarer on the way, as you keep company with Jesus as He walks toward the Cross, the cadence of your days is looking so much like the cadence of His grace as you form your life cruciform – formed and shaped like a cross. 

As we leaned into it yesterday: Cruciform is the form of surrender — and as we let ourselves be formed cruciform – we let go of all that has been formed against us. Nothing formed against us can stand – when we live cruciform. Let yourself be formed cruciform – and you begin to let go – open up your arms and heart into the posture of surrender and let go. 

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WayFarer on the Way!  You are seen today – by the One who never once takes His eyes off of you, never, ever, not once. Whatever feels broken today – know Jesus’ eyes and heart are fixed on you right now, His eyes hold yours, His arms carry you, His love has you. 

Can you feel it? As you live cruciform, arms outstretched, formed like a cross – can you feel how everything transforms? 

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Wayfarer on the Way! I don’t know what you are up against in this season, what way you are trying to navigate, what obstacle you are facing? But can we still right in this moment – and can I ask you: 

What does cruciform love look like for you  in this season?

What does it look to live formed and shaped like a cross at this particular moment?

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WayFarer – on the way… how are you? How is your heart – really?

These are questions that really matter. How is your soul?

Stillness first – always first stillness – our strength is in our stillness. And in stillness – there can be attentiveness. Might we take a moment to see where our soul is coming from – and where is our soul going to? What does your heart want, what does your heart long for? 

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WayFarer! We get to begin again! This third week of Lent… lent, this season to repent, to step away from the noise of life and let God speak a word to us in wildernesses, in stillness – in deep attentiveness, to keep company with Jesus on the Way, our faces turned to His – as Jesus’ eyes are set on the Cross, for the joy set before Him. 

WayFaring Friend, on the Way, what Cross is yours right now – to carry for the joy set before you of getting to participate in the sufferings of Christ.

When we commit to picking up our cross and living cruciform – this is when all of life begins to transform. 

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WayFarer! Brave Heart! FRIEND! Throughout the season of Lent, our Sundays are days of celebration, days not of fasting and letting go, but of letting ourselves feast, feast on the manna of the Word and the Way Himself and we will simply read and reflect and be re-stored and re-storyed by the Word himself: 

Today, the third Sunday of Lent, we turn to – what it means for our days and heart to take the shape and form of Jesus Himself – to live formed and shaped like a cross, to live cruciform...

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WayFarer, let us still first, always still first  – our battle is always first to still – and let God do the battle still. 

And it is only in stillness – that there can truly be attentiveness. 

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Can you feel it? How you are on the way of Jesus, with Jesus Himself! 

Today isn’t about maintaining control of everything. 

It’s about maintaining your gaze on Him in the midst of everything.

Today isn’t about straining for perfection in everything. 

It’s about reaching for The Perfect One in everything.

Today isn’t about getting through everything. It’s about letting Him carry you through everything. 

Exhale. Abandon fears & abide in your Father. 

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Can we take a moment to see where we are? Where we are on this journey, where we are in relation to the WayMaker? Can we attend to who do we say God is this morning? Is He your Abba? Your King? Your Friend? Ruler of the Universe? Keeper of your Sou? The One beckoning to you right now: COME. 

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Today – you get to first begin with stillness, and let that stillness grow right now into attentiveness.

ATTEND to: Where is your soul coming from now?

ATTENTIVENESS: You always have to first locate your soul – so you know where you are in relation to God – if you are to have relationship with God.

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Do you hear it right now too, in the stillness of your soul, just as you pause – the Lord calling after you right now, asking you to attend to where your heart really is, where your soul really is, like He called after Hagar,

“Where have you come from, and where are you going?” (Genesis 16:8) 

Unless we make it our way of life to pay attention every day to where our soul really is, where you’ve been coming from – how can we really know where we are going – or to see the way through? 

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 You are doing hard and holy things and  can I just tell you first thing – what a joy it is to be on the Way with you!  During our intentional journey together this second week of Lent, as we keep company with Jesus on the way toward Calvary, we will turn our attention – to what attend to – to what we are paying attention to. 

Throughout the season of Lent, our Sundays are days of celebration, days not of fasting and letting go, but of letting ourselves feast, feast on the manna of the Word and the Way Himself and we will simply read and reflect and be re-stored and re-storyed by the Word himself: 

Today, the second Sunday of Lent, we attend to – what it means to pay attention. 

As we draw near to closing our week on the Way, the SACRED way, of Jesus of practicing stillness – we rest in knowing that we can fast from interior noise and distractions and practice stillness anytime, anywhere.

We can breathe in, breathe out, and let lungs rise, lungs fall, breathe, and life is literally waves. And when we learn to still and breathe, even the sound of our very breath saying His name YHWH, and we learn to ride the waves, trust in Him, walk on water. 

((Special thanks to David Nevue for the beautiful piano melodies to our journey.))

Come, this is the season of Lent, come step aside from the loud of life, the whirl of the world, just for a moment – and listen to the stillness of the wilderness.

Come the way of Jesus Himself, who, as the Sacred Text reads in Mark 1:35 “In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.” 

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Today, you are on the Way! You are on the Way, the SACRED way of Jesus, practising a way of life that isn’t afraid of the wilderness that is stillness. 

Never, ever be afraid of the wilderness – because it’s a place of stillness. Where you can be still and know that He is God. 

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You are on the way! Giving up, only by His grace, what is in the Way between you and God. You’re doing it today, you’re moving forward today - bravely putting one step in front of the other today, moving toward another kind of life – a deeply fulfilling, abundant life. A way of Life, that follows the Way Himself.

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Today on the way, on the SACRED way, you may be deeply feeling it – the need to hustle, to race ahead, to catch up, to make tracks, to hurry hard. Fellow Wayfarer? Can I just say: You are so not alone.  

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How is your soul today, on the way? Honestly? These are hard, bewildering, heartbreaking days. And you may feel like the Israelites, seeing hard, overwhelming things rising on your horizon.

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Throughout the season of Lent, our Sundays will be days of celebration! Not days of fasting and letting go, but days of letting ourselves feast - feast on the manna of the Word and the Way Himself. We will simply read, reflect and be re-stored and re-storyed by the Word Himself.

((Special thanks to David Nevue for the beautiful piano melodies to our journey.))

The Way of Jesus is More than information or instruction, the way of Jesus is intimacy. 

Honestly? It’s splashing in the shallows, that leads to all kinds of miserable wilderness, to only know God from page, pulpit, pixelated memes, to merely have informational knowledge, when there’s a way to dive deep, to look God in the eye and experience intimate relational knowledge of God. 

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As we are keeping pace together, walking together, as we take this road on the way of Jesus, this road to Calvary, by way of Gethsemane - as you pause right now in the midst of all the things, to ask your soul, where it is, how far away from its Maker it is. As you let go of one thing that is getting in the way between you and the Way Himself, just look back, look at your map, and trace the way you have come, look back at the waves you have come through:  

Can you trust? 

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Friend, WayFarer! Whether you’re joining us as you’re making a coffee, out walking the dog, wandering down a trail through the park or folding a stack of laundry –  You are on the Way! "In via" is what the sages of old said in Latin. You are in via.

You are a Wayfarer in via, on the way, which means you are are never behind no matter the detours, but you can relax into knowing you are always on your way to rising dawns and fresh mercy, to meeting God with skin on, to wide-open fields of real grace, and being touched by Jesus through someone’s loud, carbonated laughter out of nowhere, and hope is always coming to meet us like the stream with a song that goes on and on without end. 

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Your sacred Way, your sacred journey, begins today. Whatever you are facing today on the Way, you always, always, always, get to begin again - and keep beginning again.

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