A Slow Journey Through John

In this final episode of Liminal Spaces, we step out from behind the microphone to introduce ourselves and reflect on the Liminal Spaces journey. Meet Nick & Jamie Jamie spent 15 years as a Biblical Studies teacher and teacher librarian, is finishing her MA in Theology and Culture, and is completing her first novel. Nick served as a church pastor for nearly 30 years and holds a master's degree...

Special announcement from Nick and Jamie to follow today's meditation! If you’ve it all the way through Liminal Spaces with us, and to the end of this Easter meditation, we are incredibly grateful for you, and we’d like to hear from you. We have a special bonus episode coming up in a couple of weeks, where we will share our reflections on this Liminal Spaces series. We would love for you to be...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  “ That evening Joseph of Arimathea came to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission to take it. There was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one h...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  16 Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified. The soldiers took Jesus prisoner. 17 Carrying his cross by himself, he went out to a place called Skull Place (in Aramaic, Golgotha ). 18 That’s where they crucified him—and t...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  "I give you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other. This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, when you love each other.” ~ John 13:34-35 “After he s...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  10 You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless the Lord your God in the wonderful land that he’s given you. 11 But watch yourself! Don’t forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commands or his case laws or his...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  "The Lord proclaims: Stop at the crossroads and look around;     ask for the ancient paths.     Where is the good way? Then walk in it     and find a resting place for yourselves." ~Jeremiah 6:16 The Liminal Spaces...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  "Do not be afraid… 30 The Lord your God is going ahead of you. He will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt. 31 And you saw how the Lord your God cared for you all along the way as you traveled through the wild...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  37 The Lord took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the Lord to a valley filled with bones. 2 He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the grou...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  "For now the winter is past; the rain has ended and gone away. The blossoms appear in the countryside. The time of singing has come, and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land. The fig tree ripens its figs; the blo...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  1 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3 You have already been p...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us i...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  1 In the third month from the very day the Israelites left the land of Egypt, they came to the Sinai Wilderness. 2 They traveled from Rephidim, came to the Sinai Wilderness, and camped in the wilderness. Israel camped there i...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  2 Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands. 3 Yes, he humbled you by...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  9 Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. 10 If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. The Liminal Spaces Series is a contemplativ...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” 18 But God led...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  17 The whole Israelite community broke camp and set out from the Sin desert to continue their journey, as the Lord commanded. They set up their camp at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 The people ar...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  14 When the layer of dew lifted, there on the desert surface were thin flakes, as thin as frost on the ground. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” They didn’t know what it was. Moses said to...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  "I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness— secret riches. I will do this so you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name." ~ Isaiah 45:19 The Liminal Spaces Series is a c...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  8  Elijah got up, ate and drank, and went refreshed by that food for forty days and nights until he arrived at Horeb, God’s mountain.  9  There he went into a cave and spent the night. The Lord’s word came to him and said, “W...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is available on Spotify .  1  Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, how he had killed all Baal’s prophets with the sword.  2  Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this message: “May the gods do whatever they want to me if by this time tomorrow...

The ⁠ Liminal Spaces Companion Journal ⁠ for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is ⁠⁠available on Spotify⁠⁠ .  "I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. He has driven me away and forced me to walk in darkness instead of light. Yes, he repeatedly turns his hand against me all day long. He has laid...

The Liminal Spaces Companion Journal for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is ⁠available on Spotify⁠ .  "The Lord is good to those who wait for him… It is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.” (Lamentations 3: 25-26) "Yet I am confident I will see the LORD ’s goodness while I am here in the land of the...

The ⁠ Liminal Spaces Companion Journal ⁠ for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is ⁠⁠available on Spotify⁠⁠ .  1 Then the Spirit led Jesus up into the wilderness so that the devil might tempt him. 2 After Jesus had fasted for forty days and forty nights, he was starving. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “Since you are God’s...

The ⁠ Liminal Spaces Companion Journal ⁠ for daily personal reflection questions and a weekly small group discussion guide. The Liminal Spaces playlist is ⁠⁠available on Spotify⁠⁠ .  1 The entire community raised their voice and the people wept that night. 2 All the Israelites criticized Moses and Aaron. The entire community said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt or if only we had...