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Divine Reading for the First Sunday of Advent: An old...

December 1, 2022

This Advent our little nondenominational Bible church is taking time on Sunday mornings to sit quietly in the presence of the Word, patterning our time after a medieval practice that blends reading, contemplation, and prayer, called Lectio Divina.

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Shelved with: Word in Prayer|| Word in Worship|| Reading the Word
Tagged With: Lectio Divina, Church Year, Advent, Holidays
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Another Transfiguration

November 5, 2020

As on that mountain, as in this year, all our plans are overthrown, and following Jesus doesn’t look the way it did before.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Word in the World|| Reading the Word|| Community & Time
Tagged With: COVID-19, BlackLivesMatter, Transfiguration, Pandemic, Race, Bible
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Purity & Love

February 14, 2014

“If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I need your modesty.”

So… virtue = being careful to stay out of the way of the sinfulness of young men. “That’s what makes you beautiful.” Got it.

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Shelved with: Reading the Word|| Hearts & Minds|| Word in the World|| Parenting
Tagged With: Sex, Psychology, Parenting, Marriage, Holidays, Gender, Valentine's Day, Virtue
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Wounded & Holy

April 27, 2013

Of course there is woundedness, but there is holiness as well. How the two come together — not which one wins, but how they join — constitutes the unique and profound meaning of one’s life: the emergence out of the maelstrom of the true self, transformed in Christ.

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Shelved with: Word in Prayer|| Reading the Word

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St. Patrick by Hamish Burgess

The Breastplate of St. Patrick

March 17, 2013

I bind unto myself the power /
Of the great love of the cherubim; /
The sweet ‘well done’ in judgment hour, /
The service of the seraphim, /
Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word, /
The Patriarchs’ prayers, the Prophets’ scrolls, /
All good deeds done unto the Lord, /
And purity of virgin souls.

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Shelved with: Word in Season|| Literature|| Word in Worship|| Visions & Ventures|| Reading the Word|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: celtic, prayer, St. Patrick, arts, Holidays
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Epiphanies, Not Resolutions

January 13, 2013

These are the questions of the New Year, and of the Seasons of Winter & Epiphany, as the days grow long & longer: Are you still seeking? What is your guide? What gifts do you bring?

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Shelved with: Word in Season|| Reading the Word|| Mind & Society|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Church Year, Epiphany, Seasons, New Year's Day, Holidays
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Creation Groans

January 1, 2013

Turning & turning – and do we now see /
Mere anarchy at last upon the world?

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Shelved with: Word in Season|| Literature|| Visions & Ventures|| Reading the Word|| Community & Time
Tagged With: Poetry, New Year's Day, Holidays
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Terrible Goodness

September 15, 2012

Nature’s so terribly good. Don’t you think so, Mr. Stanhope?”

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Shelved with: The Book of Nature|| Reading the Word|| Literature|| Visions & Ventures
Tagged With: Fear, CSL Ten Books
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What Would C.S. Lewis Read?

June 1, 2012

The books of C.S. Lewis filled me with a sense of wonder & awe, and shaped my youthful vision of what it meant to be a whole, healthy, mature, and virtuous human being. But what books shaped him?

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Shelved with: Reading the Word|| Text & Context|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Bookselling, Books
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Eating the Book

January 1, 2012

Read through the Bible in 2012 with a community of local fellow-readers: Door Creek and Blackhawk churches here in Madison are encouraging their communities to join in a reading plan called Eat This Book.

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Shelved with: Word in Season|| Reading the Word
Tagged With: Bible, Book Clubs
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On the Discipline of Seeing

November 12, 2011

Pastor David E. Carlson at Fresh Read tells what painting has taught him about studying the Word.

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Shelved with: Visions & Ventures|| Reading the Word|| Text & Context
Tagged With: watercolor, close reading, arts, Bible
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Tomorrow is a Monday

April 3, 2011

A voluptuous torrent…

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