A Short On-Ramp: A Pastor's Appreciation of Church
On the drive from Saint John to Fredericton you come to a point where Highway 7, which passes over the Trans-Canada Highway, loops down...
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Bedford Baptist
Feb 10, 20233 min
The Longing for Meaning: Phoebe Bridgers' "Chinese Satellite"
The past few weeks I’ve found myself listening over and over again to a song from Phoebe Bridgers’ haunting 2020 album Punisher called...
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Bedford Baptist
Feb 4, 20233 min
The Importance of Ordinary Prayer, Pt. 2: Saying Grace
In one of the segments of the 1948 Disney anthology film Melody Time, the character of Johnny Appleseed sings a song as he gathers the...
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Bedford Baptist
Jan 19, 20233 min
The Importance of Ordinary Prayer, Pt. 1: Waking and Sleeping
Prayer can sometimes seem either overly simple or overly challenging. On the one hand, prayer can be as simple as thinking of a need and...
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Bedford Baptist
Jan 11, 20234 min
Corinth, Lost, and Transformation
This is a post I wrote and posted on another platform in early 2022. Given that the New Year is often greeted by thoughts about making...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 31, 20225 min
Detailed Recommendations for 2023 Reading Challenge
Reading books that support our Bible reading and our life of prayer and faithful discipleship can be a huge catalyst for growth in our...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 23, 20222 min
A Little Christmas Theology
On my shelves here at the church are a pair of matching books by the late Scottish theologian Thomas Torrance, whose work I quoted in...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 16, 20223 min
The Return of Christmas?
A year ago I wondered whether Christmas as it was in the past would ever return. Two years of governments playing tag with an elusive...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 9, 20225 min
Reflections at Midday
I woke up early yesterday morning, earlier than usual. Through my living room window I saw a lot of darkness before my place on the couch...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 1, 20224 min
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, 20223 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, 20223 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, 20223 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, 20224 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, 20224 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, 20223 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, 20226 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, 20223 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, 20223 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, 20223 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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