Week: 6 Spiritual Practices and Rest Rhythms: rest, prayer, habits that sustain life. This week focuses on sustainable spiritual rhythms that integrate rest, prayer, and habit into a whole-life formation plan. It highlights Sabbath, contemplative practices, and simple daily disciplines that replenish rather than deplete. The emphasis is on creating patterns that protect soul health and enable long-term faithfulness. Objectives Integrate short practices into daily life. Learn Sabbath and rest as spiritual practices. Establish simple, repeatable spiritual rhythms. Reflections What one practice will I keep after this week? How does rest change my relationship with God? What prevents me from resting? NowTo the HowTo Accountability/Tracking Commit to one weekly rest block and log it; partners check in about obstacles. Community Action Arrange a group “mini retreat” (30 minutes) focused on rest and a guided breath prayer. Creative Project Design a weekly rhythm card (work, rest, worship, service) to post at home. Leader Prompt Offer three short, adaptable practices for rest and invite participants to pick one to try. Personal Practice Try a 10 minute Sabbath pause this week and journal one change in mood or clarity. Previous Week Devotionals Pants First, Then Shoes 4 min read Too often, we dive into solving our problems without checking in with the Lord and tend to ask Him for direction once we have totally boogered things up! This devotional helps remind us that God's sequence of 'faith first' is always the right way to go. Pleasure Points 3 min read Yes... at first glance that does seem like a questionable title for a devotion, but today we are getting encouragement about keeping our contact with the Lord current, consistent, and much more second natural in our lives. The thing about 'pleasure points' is that there are countless points through our day when we receive/obtain pleasure, satisfaction, or even just comfort through things we do, things we consume (eat, drink, inhale, etc), and even the interaction we have with others. The... Get Ready To Relax 2 min read Odd title, I know. At the drop of a hat, if not sooner, I can be in rest-mode... and linger there for a seemingly endless span if time. Who needs to 'prepare' to relax, anyway? Well, our devotional today actually reflects on our 'before your day begins' time. One of the very hardest things to do is not do things, not prepare, not get ahead of yourself, and certainly ahead of the Lord as you face the day. It is SO easy and rather natural to 'get to it', right out of the gate, right as your... Fresh Ain't Easy 2 min read Our devotional today helps us reflect on our relationship with God and Jesus in a similar light. Just because we've been 'around the Lord' for a while, doesn't mean our zeal, excitement, and yearn is going to remain strong. Keeping our hearts and mind set on Him is not easy, keeping it fresh does require diligence on our part, attention to His presence in our lives. Quiet Trusting Baby Steps 2 min read Not sure about you, but sometimes I find it hard to start something or commit to something when I think/feel there are too many steps, unsettled details, or even if it's just 'too complicated' or confusing. Over the course of my life though, I have been learning to break-it-down into smaller, manageable pieces... keeping their own stresses and uncertainties separated. Our devotional today encourages us to approach our faith and our time with the Lord the same way. See, more times than not we... Because You Can 2 min read Once you make it a habit of spending exclusive time with the Lord (because you can), the trials, the struggles, the tumult of life... View More Next Week

Buster's REO Back to Gallery This 1954 REO Gold Comet was purchased in 1956 by Buster (Frank Redfield). They were living in Atlanta at the time, but his father was back on the wheat farm in Opheim, Montana and gettin' on in years. This wheat farm is one of the original 'homestead' grants from back at the turn of the century, and has been in the family all these years. So, Buster had to head home to take over operation of the farm... and this old truck was loaded with all their personal possessions and headed back home! Show Me More

Week: 7 Discernment and Guarding Influence Protecting mind, attention, sources, and speech. Participants learn to steward attention and to evaluate influences—media, relationships, and internal narratives—that shape belief and behavior. The week offers tools for discernment, boundaries for healthy consumption, and practices for truthful, life-giving speech. The aim is a guarded openness: receptive to God while wise about what shapes us. Objectives Test impressions against Scripture and wise counsel. Practice discernment in media, relationships, and habits. Identify sources that shape thinking and behavior. Reflections What boundary will I set this week? How do I test what I hear or feel? What source most shapes my thinking? NowTo the HowTo Accountability/Tracking Use a shared spreadsheet to track sources audited and one action taken for each. Community Action Share one media or habit you’ve changed and why; invite feedback and alternatives. Creative Project Build a “Source Control” checklist card with three questions to ask before consuming content. Leader Prompt Teach a simple discernment rule set (Scripture, peace, wise counsel) and run a short case study. Personal Practice Do a 48 hour “source audit” and remove or mute one recurring negative input. Previous Week Devotionals Devil Made Me Do It 5 min read The devil cannot 'make' you do anything, neither can Jesus for that matter. Why then DO you do things you do not want to do? Broadminded and Resistant 3 min read Those two traits rarely exist in the same sentence, but our devotional for today encourages us to be broadminded, but retain an ability/willingness to be resistant. Sure, seems those would almost never exist in you life, let alone actually making an effort to develop and strengthen them. Broadminded simply means your heart and spirit are open and ready for His guidance, for His leading FOR you. In fact, Ephesians 3:16-19 admonishes us; " That he would grant you, according to the riches of... Subjective Perspective 2 min read How I view things is quite different than most people. Not at all because I am special, mostly because I am taller than most people. I can see over cubical walls without getting on my tip-toes; I can change ceiling lights without a ladder; I can even sit in the back of an auditorium and still over most of the audience. My perspective, my vantage point, the world I experience is subjective. It is unfair to be critical of anyone who needs/uses a ladder to change a ceiling lightbulb...... Wandering You 2 min read Walking or traveling along a straight line or path is the shortest and most efficient means to travel from Point A to Point B. That's all well and good as long as you are not inside a house or building (trying to get from the kitchen to the bathroom, say), or not in Manhattan (trying to get uptown from the Statue of Liberty). Buildings and objects, natural obstacles, and simple old detours can often make your 'straight and efficient' trip quite a bit longer, quite a bit more frustrating, and... Source Control 2 min read As a programmer, I use the term Source Control to explain how 'source code' (the program and files) are stored and controlled for safe and secure keeping. Oddly, our closeness to the Lord has many of the same characteristics. Our devotional today reminds me that His protection and fellowship is best when I remain close and 'under His umbrella of grace'... not a body guard, at all... a complete refuge. Reading Psalms 32:7 , it states; " Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from... Attention to Derail 2 min read No, today's devotional is not about train safety, or rail-yard protocol. Too very often, my spirit, my trust in the Lord, my peace and hope in Him... are derailed by giving too much attention to temporal things; be it financial woes, family concerns, or even the never tiring political & social struggles. I just end up in a puddle of worry, or tending toward hopelessness, and worse, that ugly feeling of solitude and abandonment (where's God?). But back to derailing, because my train-of-thought... View More Next Week

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