The Warrior’s Path invites you to our 5th Annual

40 Day Advent challenge

NOVEMBER 17th - December 24th

In one of life’s great ironies, the season that has for centuries been set aside as a time to celebrate the birth of jesus has now become the busiest season of the year — so busy that we hardly have any time left to actually spend with Jesus. And that leaves us feeling burnt out and empty, and to be honest, a little guilty knowing how far “off center” our lives have become.

A few years ago we decided we’d had enough of the old way of doing Christmas. We decided we wanted to put first things first, and let everything else fall into place.

And it was so good.

And for the fifth year in a row, we are inviting you to join with us in experiencing that goodness.

What is the 40 Day Advent Discipline Challenge?

at it’s most basic, it’s quite simple:

Commit with us to pushing back against the busyness of the season by intentionally and determinedly carving out a minimum of 30 minutes a day throughout the holiday season to spend alone with God: reorienting ourselves to the center of our lives, the reason for our lives, the goal of our lives.

For some of you, we know that this is already a daily habit, and we are inviting you to commit to making this season special by spending more time alone with God than you usually do - perhaps an hour? perhaps more?

For others of you, this WAS a daily habit for you once upon a time, but you have allowed the busyness of life to erode your commitment to making a DAILY practice of unplugging from the world and spending time with Jesus. We believe that this Advent season is the perfect time for you to take back this lost practice, to ground your daily life in the things that matter most. It may sound impractical, even impossible: “do you have any idea how full my calendar is right now?” Yes, I think we have some idea. But One of the key tenents of the Warriors path is that commitments like this are surprisingly easier to keep when you make them in partnership with a like-minded band of brothers and sisters.

And then for some of you prayer, down-time, reflection, grounding, going deep into the things of the soul — these just haven’t ever really been “your thing.” But then, you’ve probably noticed that your internal reserves for dealing with life tend to get awfully depleted, and, well, what have you got to lose? After all, we were created to walk in relationship with our Heavenly Father, so when we voluntarily opt out of that incredible privilege, odds are we are going to feel that loss at the soul level. Don’t you think its worth giving daily time with Jesus a serious try?

Wherever you are coming from, would you consider joining with us and creating space in your all-too-busy life for some spiritual disciplines? Does 30 minutes sound too hard? How about just a firm commitment to spend 15 minutes a day alone with God?

If you’d like to join us on the 40 Day Advent Challenge, welcome! We’re glad to have you with us on the journey ahead. Please take a minute to fill out the sign-up form at the link below - that’s where you can let us know what type of commitment you are aiming for, and how much help you’d like from us in sticking to them. Because for us, we see the Advent challenge sort of like signing up for a gym membership: everyone’s goals are similar (from a broad perspective), but are you the kind of person that wants to be left alone to do your thing, or the kind of person that wants a training partner to spot them on the heavy lifts, or even the kind of person that just wants a personal trainer to tell them what to do next? Wherever you’re at, we want to meet you right there!