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Prefacing Scary Close: The Significance of Place
One of the best parts of Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What for me was the preface to the second, expanded edition. One of the significant part’s of Miller’s story that helped me was his simple understanding of place … Continue reading
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Prefacing Scary Close: Intersections
I remember well when my friend Cathy introduced me to Blue Like Jazz and the work of Donald Miller. It was early in my time in Hawaii, and it felt like I was finally settling into some kind of routine. … Continue reading
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The Unfinished Line
This past November I spoke at an area church for the beginning of Advent. While I liked the general content of my sermon (and will surely reuse it somewhere down the road), I have to admit that something felt missing … Continue reading
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A Common Confession
Yesterday I rambled on a bit about The Pilgrim’s Progress and starting from a common place (as seen in the story with the Wicket Gate). How good it is, I think, for us to sing about that which is common … Continue reading
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How the Way Becomes Common
There’s one particular idea from Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress that has stuck with me since I reread it last semester. Early in the story, Christian is told to go to the wicket gate, that he will receive further instructions there. … Continue reading
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Forgetting, Losing, and Finding Ourselves
One last selection from Bonhoeffer’s Life Together concerning reading the Bible together: Consecutive reading of Biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has acted once and for … Continue reading
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The Story Under Your Skin
The author I read most this past year had to be James K. A. Smith. His How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor is probably the best book about a book I’ve ever read. After that, I moved on … Continue reading
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Cynicism and “Come and See”
If I gave an award for “Book Bought Most in 2014,” it would definitely be Steven Garber’s Visions of Vocation. It dropped in late spring, and I was so moved by it that I had to pass it on to … Continue reading
“Too Profane a Purpose”
Again from Bonhoeffer’s Life Together: Do not object that the purpose of common devotions is profounder than to learn the contents of the Scriptures, that this is too profane a purpose, something which must be achieved apart from worship . … Continue reading
“More Than Light for Today”
From Bonhoeffer’s Life Together: Almost all of us have grown up with the idea that the Scripture reading is only a matter of hearing the Word of God for this particular day. That is why for many the Scripture reading … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 