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Nov 3, 20223 min read

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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Oct 28, 20224 min read

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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Oct 19, 20224 min read

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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Oct 14, 20223 min read

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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Oct 8, 20226 min read

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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Sep 23, 20223 min read

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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Sep 16, 20223 min read

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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Sep 9, 20223 min read

"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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