Doctor My Eyes: Gospel-Corrected Vision
Not long before we left New Brunswick, I was scanning through the book sale display at Fredericton Public Library (one of the places I...
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Bedford Baptist
- Nov 25
- 3 min
Resources for Prayer, pt. 3: the Orthodox Tradition
In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, there is a consistent emphasis on what the fathers called the “prayer of the heart.” Taking as a...
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Bedford Baptist
- Nov 10
- 3 min
Resources for Prayer, Pt. 2: Prayers from Scripture
The Psalms are the hefty centre for prayer in the Bible, but they are far from the only place we can turn for guidance in prayer....
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Bedford Baptist
- Nov 3
- 3 min
Resources for Prayer, Pt. 1: The Psalms
What We Have in the Psalms One of the best resources we have for praying is found in our Bibles, in the book of Psalms. When Dietrich...
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Bedford Baptist
- Oct 28
- 4 min
Bottomless Chapters
The philosopher Mortimer Adler defined great books as being those books that we can and should read again and again. “We need not read...
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Bedford Baptist
- Oct 19
- 4 min
A Few Recommendations about Learning Our Story
This past Sunday we looked at the story of Jesus sending out 72 of his followers on a travelling mission (Luke 10:1-12, 16). One of the...
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Bedford Baptist
- Oct 14
- 3 min
Silence, Love, and Attention: An Encouragement to Scripture Memorization
Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so...
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Bedford Baptist
- Oct 8
- 6 min
Notes from Isolation...
Original plan: I had dreamed of writing a clever post describing the way the week had unfolded, marking the highs and lows of both my...
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Bedford Baptist
- Sep 23
- 3 min
Silence and Prayer
Silence is hard to find. Quiet, no matter how you define it, is elusive. Concentration seems to be an endangered skill, threatened by the...
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Bedford Baptist
- Sep 16
- 3 min
You and I and We
When I was in seminary, one of the big shifts in my approach to reading the Bible came from a reminder that many professors and books...
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Bedford Baptist
- Sep 9
- 3 min
"Because you're letting me..."
A couple of nights ago (the evening of the first day of another school year) we sat down after supper to watch one of the classic movies...
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