Letting Jesus be the light for your weekend (Friday Soulfest)
How better to head into a weekend than a Soulfest? That’s a festival for your soul, and it means connecting with God in deeply happy-making ways. Throughout 2014, I will be posting excerpts and prayer exercises from my book Luminous: Living the Presence and Power of Jesus . With these posts, I hope to give you springboards for communing with Jesus. He’s the one who puts the fest in our souls! During February, I am posting from chapter one of Luminous . Today I start from the beginning: why the word “luminous?” In order to see the importance of this word, go back 2000 years and imagine you knew Jesus personally. I invite you to read the following slowly, taking time to feel the great wonder Jesus inspired in people… If you were one of the disciples, how would you go about describing Jesus to people who had never seen him? You had lived with him for three and a half years. His presence among people was altogether unique. You felt a bond with him that drew you forward but mysti...