Shining Like the Sun: Seven Mindful Practices for Rekindling Your Faith is a nine-part series based on the book of the same title. It’s a free resource for pastors and nonprofit leaders who want to guide the people they lead on a journey of rediscovering God through seven mindful practices: attentiveness, ordinariness, simplicity, rhythm, conversation, delight, and restoration. You’ll receive a leader’s guide with nine sermon outlines as well as nine discussion guides for groups.

Find out more about all seven practices by watching the short video below:

Part One - Finding God Where You Are: Understanding mindfulness and introducing the seven practices.

Part Two - Attentiveness: Learning to return to here so you can find God waiting for you with love in the eternal now.

Part Three - Ordinariness: Learning to return to who you are and away from who you think you should be. 

Part Four - Simplicity: Learning to give unambiguous yeses and unapologetic noes in ways that leave margin and space. 

Part Five - Rhythm: Learning to hear and play your part in the song the universe is singing. 

Part Six: Conversation: Learning to ask questions that continually expand how you see and understand the world.

Part Seven - Delight: Learning to fully receive whatever  is in front of you. 

Part Eight - Restoration: Learning to welcome the weakness, fragility, and loneliness in yourself and others for mutual healing. 

Part Nine - Finding God Wherever You Go: Reviewing the seven practices and putting them in the context of the Hero’s Journey. 

Shining Like the Sun offers seven mindful practices - attentiveness, ordinariness, simplicity, rhythms, conversation, delight, and restoration - that will help you experience God as a living reality in your mind, heart, and body, and deep within your soul. Through illuminating stories and tangible suggestions for embodying each practice, you will discover ways to encounter God in ordinary moments and come alive. 

What Others are Saying: 

“If you miss the childlike wonder that once intuited there was more to life than meets the eye, commune with these pages and you just might find your soul.” 

- Phileena Heuertz, founding partner, Gravity: A Center for Contemplative Activism; author of Pilgrimage of a Soul

“Wiens circles round questions that have intrigued people for millennia. He takes his faith as seriously as his doubt, and offers practices that exercise both body and belief.” 

- Pádraig Ó Tuama, author of In the Shelter; inaugural poet laureate of The On Being Project 

 Steve Wiens is a spiritual teacher, writer, and pastor who loves helping people reconstruct their faith after their theological foundations have crumbled. His ecumenical and imaginative approach to spiritual development encourages people to let their deep questions lead the way into new and expansive understandings of God, themselves, and the world in which they live. He’s the founding pastor of Genesis, a small, intergenerational church in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.

This nine-part series is completely free, and is designed for pastors and leaders to use with their congregations, staff, teams,. or book clubs. You’ll receive a leader’s guide with nine outlines for talks or sermons, in addition to nine discussion guides for groups to use.

Click here to read the first chapter or click here to listen to the first chapter.

If you’re a pastor or leader of a non-profit and you’d like to utilize this nine-part series with your church or organization, please fill out this brief form.

If you’d like to provide copies of the book to your church or team, orders of the Shining Like the Sun can be made directly through my publisher, Broadleaf Books, at discounts of 40 - 50% based on the number of books ordered. 

Get the Leader Guide and the discussion Guide for free:

If you’re a pastor, Team Leader or Book Club Facilitator and you’d like to utilize this nine-part series with your church, group or organization, please fill out this brief form. Once we’ve confirmed you’re not a robot or really earnest troll, we’ll email you the leader’s guide and group discussion guide for each of the nine parts. 

We hope this resource provides meaningful content to you and the people you lead! In it together.

- The team at Stevewiens.com