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ORE: A Tool to Help You Debrief – Yourself or Others

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“Being asked questions was very helpful”, “having someone who listen”, and “having a place I can just process while talking”. These are the comments I hear most often at the end of a debriefing. To a large extent, debriefing consists of someone asking open questions and listening to the answers, … [Read more...]

Two Percent Focus

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Normally, it is Franziska who does briefings rather than I, but recently I was asked to debrief a relatively large team that had just completed leading a course together. I made an interesting observation in the process, one that applies to many if not all programmes or events that need to be … [Read more...]

Why Do They Come?

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Isaiah 2:2-4 is a familiar Bible passage. I have often commented on it in my teaching of the book of Isaiah. The other day, however, I noticed something I had not seen before, and it relates directly to retreat centres of all kinds. Here is the passage (NIV): In the last days the mountain of the … [Read more...]

Elijah’s Inn

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First, there was a strenuous and prolonged tug of war between the prophet and the royal couple, which he mostly spent on the run and in hiding. Then there was an intense showdown with 450 Baal priests. Singlehandedly, he pulled of a remarkable vindication of Yahweh that would resound throughout the … [Read more...]

Isaiah 55 Tree Planting

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Isaiah 55 is a chapter that has always been special to us. In part this is because of its rich content and imagery. It starts with a generous and bountiful invitation. It uses rain and snow as images for God’s word always and inevitably producing fruit. It portrays ecstatic mountains and jubilant … [Read more...]

Elishah’s Inn: Time for a Study Retreat?

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When we chose the name "Elijah's Inn", we were thinking of Elijah's stop on the way to Mount Horeb. It refers to that spot in the Negeb where an angel awakened him and fed him. One could of course also think of the brook Cherith, where Elijah hid away for a while and was fed by ravens. Or of the … [Read more...]

Conversation

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A good conversation is one of the greatest and most enjoyable pleasures in life. It can also make a tremendous contribution to personal growth and development. Franziska and I count it a significant blessing that people who come to stay with us because we are part of the Leadership Retreat Centre … [Read more...]

Our Christmas Gift

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We arrived here in the south of Spain at the beginning of autumn and started off with four months of language study in nearby Málaga. Early in December, with about seven weeks of language school left, we started to look seriously for a place to live in or near Alhaurín, where the Retreat Centre is … [Read more...]