This free download is a compilation adapted from Christine Sine’s experiences with Celtic Retreats and other resources. Introduction to Celtic Spirituality covers a range of topics that follow Celtic traditions. If you are unfamiliar with Celtic Spirituality, this is a great resource to aid in your research! It includes a resource list at the end that will guide you toward a vast array of other authors and websites that are centered around Celtic Spirituality.
What’s inside? Check out the Table of Contents in the description section below for a sneak peak.
Since I wrote To Garden with God, a rich array of resources that connect gardeners to garden techniques and faith principles for gardening, have proliferated. In response, I started to publish several resource lists on my blog each year to supplement the resources in. However, numbers of people have suggested that a single publication would assist their efforts.
This booklet was created in response to this need and like the resource lists that are updated yearly on the blog, it will be updated each year to reflect the new resources and techniques available to help us. This has been updated for 2021. Enjoy!
Each week throughout Lent, beginning with Ash Wednesday, we will provide a focus word, a scripture passage and questions to reflect on. Each Wednesday our focus will shift to a new word. Because I always want to end with the kingdom rather than the cross, I have added the theme of resurrection/life to see us through the last days of Holy Week and into Easter.
This is also a fun activity to do with kids that provides a context in which to talk to them about Advent and the coming of Christ. Also great for adults! This is a downloadable packet that will walk you through the steps of creating your own advent jar and printable “sticks” to cut out and use that have a variety of activities on them for your family to enjoy as you prepare for the nativity of Jesus.
Beautiful, touching, and emotion provoking poems for grieving and loss. We are blessed by Ana Lisa for sharing these amazing poems with us as a free digital download.
Updated by Ana Lisa de Jong for 2023.
This download includes a free book of poems by Ana Lisa DeJong called “Broken Into Wholeness; Poems for Recovery”. Ana Lisa has graciously allowed us to offer this collection as a download for our store.
Free book of poems by one of our community writers, Ana Lisa de Jong called “The Gate to Heaven: Poems for Contemplation”. Enjoy this collection of beautiful, contemplative poems.
I find that many of my readers are craving more. More details to help them practice the exercises explained in the book effectively. More exercises to help them continue the work they have done as a result of their reading.
This resource is a special bonus download intended to help you more effectively use some of the existing exercises or take advantage of the new ideas that have come out of suggestions that have been sent to me
Return to Our Senses explores approaches to prayer that connect our spiritual practices to everyday life, awakening all our senses to a deeper relationship to our loving God. Some of the practices have existed for centuries and only require us to tap into the rich knowledge and practices of ancient followers of Christ to access them. Others will be newly created, springing fresh from our imaginations and creativity, specially designed for intimacy with God in our present culture. This is a great book for group study.
This 6-session study guide can be used alongside a printed copy of Return To Our Senses as an individual devotional or for small group discussion.
Celebrate the Easter Season with this free download! Though originally published in 2009, the hope that comes from Resurrection Sunday and continues into Pentecost is always needed! We have made some small additions for a COVID-19 reality, but feel that many of the suggestions can be adapted. Christine invites us to Journey Into God’s Resurrection-created World as a way to celebrate this season. The joy that comes when we recognize what Jesus has done for us is infectious and this book outlines creative ways to invest in the lives of those around us, including those we normally disregard.
Looking to write a book? Not sure where to start? Check out these helpful tips from Christine Sine about writing a book! This free resource supplies ten steps to enable you to begin your next book writing project.
Ana Lisa de Jong has graciously shared several of her poems with us on our blog during this Pandemic time of uncertainty. Now, you can download her complete volume as a free collection of unpublished poetry mostly written in 2020. For more poetry by Ana Lisa, visit livingtreepoetry.com.
A diverse grouping of lovely poetry by Ana Lisa de Jong about the vastness of nature. From “Rooted” to “The Secret of An Acorn”, you will be delighted by the imagery that is painted so eloquently in this collection. A volume of poems gifted to Godspace as a free download from the ever talented Ana Lisa de Jong!
Looking for fun and new ways for your child to experience God?
This booklet is packed with ideas and detailed instructions for creative prayer practices perfect for kids. It invites new avenues for how to talk with God. Includes prayers, activities, pictures and other resources for kids as well.
This free download includes poems, pictures, and exercizes that invite kids to express their imaginations. The activities provided are explained in such a way as to allow for creativity flow and self-expression to take place through colouring.
Also includes classroom support suggestions for students experiencing stressors due to loss or trauma.
Written by Kim Balke, Expressive Arts Therapist: © Kim Balke 2020
In 2020s Foresight: Three Vital Practices for Thriving in a Decade of Accelerating Change, authors Tom Sine and Dwight J. Friesen provide Christian leaders with essential resources for life-planning and change-making in the turbulent 2020s.
They show Christian leaders three new vital practices for times like these and how to adapt the first two vital practices that are essential to the work of environmental, urban planners and business innovators in this time of accelerating change. First, they show Christian leaders, and those they work with, how to anticipate some of the incoming waves of change (before they start planning), so they have lead-time to respond. Secondly, they show Christian leaders how to broadly research innovative ways to respond to the incoming waves to expand their range of options. Finally, they encourage Christian leaders to select those innovative options that most authentically reflect the ways of Jesus.
Originally written for Lent reflection but readable at any time, this collection of poetry from Jeannie Kendall made available for Godspace looks at some gospel stories through the eyes of various individuals.
Other of her writings can be accessed through www.jeanniekendall.co.uk
Download now for free and enjoy these daily reflection prayer poems by Carol Dixon. This compiled reflection is available now to prepare for the celebration of St. Aidan’s Day on August 31.
Also includes a music download for “A Special Place” by Carol Dixon.
Prayers by Carol Dixon and Revd Rachel Poolman. Paintings by John Tierney. Used with permission.
A collection of poems written in the last year, (most yet unpublished) to draw us to reflect on the Holy gift of God, both in the trinity, and in the gift of the Christ Child – Emmanuel, God with Us.
Copyright Ana Lisa de Jong, Living Tree Poetry
With words and images by Kate Kennington Steer, this charming little booklet will have you pondering each pause of the day. Enjoy these contemplative haikus, posted originally under our theme of Restoring Rhythms and Seasons – a gift from Kate Kennington Steer to you!
This free downloadable compilation of our Artful Julybilee explores the theme Living As Christ Lived: Towards Justice, Love, and Peace for All Creation through the lens of art. Enjoy photographs, stories, reflections, paintings, and more in this beautiful booklet – gathering everything from our 2022 Artful Julybilee into one place!
Compiled and edited by Melissa Taft, this collection includes rich artful contributions from: Christine Sine, Lynne Baab, David Baab, John Birch, Ana Lisa de Jong, Carol Dixon, Keren Dibbens-Wyatt, Gil George, Jenneth Graser, Evelyn Heard, Kate Kennington Steer, Laurie Klein, Joy Lenton, Lilly Lewin, Lisa Scandrette, and Melissa Taft