Prayer is the foundational habit of all the spiritual practices and the critical launching point for apprentices of Jesus who want to be...

I have had an on again/off again relationship with prayer over the course of my life. Not that there have been long seasons where I...

To say that my trip to India last week was formative would be an understatement. The work that God has been doing through White Oak and...

This week began the season of Lent. This is the traditional season which starts 40 days before Easter of Christian fasting, mourning, and...

Jeffrey Derico joined the White Oak team in January to serve as Executive Pastor, with his initial areas of focus being leadership...

Last week I shared with you how the prophet Jonah was (or was not) being formed into a more loving person. I would be remiss if I...

Are you becoming more loving? Seriously. Consider how long you’ve been following Jesus. What do you think: Are you more loving today than...

Justice and mercy. I want to spend some time to share with you God’s use of these two ideas and how they unfold to shape the life and...

When we read the stories of Jesus’s interactions with individuals throughout the Gospel stories, we often make a quick, unthinking, but...

What is spiritual formation? We’ve been introduced to this phrase over the past couple of weeks. For our purposes and vision at White...