Centering Prayer and Transformation
Brian Russell and Rich Lewis discuss how Centering prayer impacts our transformation in Christ.
Rich Lewis Interviews Teresa Yerkes
Rich Lewis Interviews Teresa Yerkes
Rich Lewis is an author, podcaster and a Centering prayer teacher. He is working on another book on how Centering prayer can help us cope with the daily news of our lives. He hopes to have it available by the end of the year. Check out his website: www.silenceteaches.com
Teresa Yerkes is the Founder of Christian Meditation Center. You can learn more about the work her Center does at https://www.christianmeditationcenter…
Teresa and I discussed the following topics:
What is the Christian Meditation Center?
What is Christian Meditation?
Teresa shares her journey to how the Christian Meditation Center came to be.
Books Teresa has written. (see below)
Books Teresa is currently writing and will be available in the Fall.
1. Unveiling the Divine Parallels: Exploring the Shared Lessons of Jesus in the Bible and A Course in Miracles by Vicki Simek and Teresa Yerkes
2. Julianna and Madeline’s Journey to God’s Peace and Love: A Christian Meditation Journey (children’s book)
Vision for the Retreat Center
Christian Meditation for Children
Mentors that have shaped Teresa
Practices that help to ground and focus
Teresa has written three books if you want to check them out.
God Within You: The Case for Christian Meditation, click here to purchase https://amzn.to/3WfvN23
Come Closer: The Practice of Christian Meditation, click here to purchase https://amzn.to/
Making Love: The Spiritual Act of Love, click here to purchase https://amzn.to/46gzWaE
The Amazon links are affiliate links.
Rich Lewis Interviews Brian Russell
Brian Russell (Ph.D.) is an award winning professor of biblical studies and a transformational coach for pastors and spiritually-minded professionals. His personal mission is to seek out, study, and embody the deepest truths about God so that he can share them compellingly, lovingly, and transformationally with others.
Centering Prayer and Hearing God’s Call
https://youtu.be/ld4Gq-0hsBA
Rich Lewis’ Interview with Amos Smith
Rich Lewis interviews Amos Smith to discuss his book’s Tenth Anniversary Edition of Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots.
Observing and “Owning” Our Inner World
https://youtube.com/embed/fe3nT9ZIDQY
The Spirit’s Wind in Your Sails
Surrender is difficult, but Jesus’ final message to his disciples reassures us that we are always under the protection and care of our heavenly Father. Radical trust is the only way to the promised gift of peace and complete joy.
Walking in the Truth
Christian meditation is a sacred practice involving both thinking about God and being with Him, guided by the Holy Spirit. It’s a precious gift that allows us to renew our minds and align ourselves with God’s will.
Colloquy Podcast: Meditation Changes Your Brain. Here’s How.
Paul Massari interviews Neuroscientist, Richard Davidson, PhD. If you’re one of the 32 percent of US adults who experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression last year, your doctor or mental health care provider may have recommended you learn meditation to help manage your stress. But how exactly does this age-old practice change the brain? Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, PhD ’76, the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discusses his decades of research on meditation—enabled in part by a collaboration with the Dalai Lama—and dispels myths about how it works and when, where, and how it can be done.
The Prayer of Quiet – St. Teresa Of Avila
A selection of key points for prayer and meditation from St Teresa of Avila’s teachings. Excerpts taken from numerous sources, including: “The Way of Perfection”, “Collected Works” and “Interior Castle.” St Teresa of Ávila (March 28, 1515 – October 4, 1582) was a prominent Carmelite nun and Spanish mystic. St Teresa had many mystical experiences she tried to reflect in poems. She took an active role in the Carmelite order and was later canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic church.