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Psalm 90
"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
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A Cascade of Delight
In doing a little bit of online research into some Greek words in the New Testament, I stumbled upon a connection I wanted to share concerning the word…
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No One Speaks for God
On Prophets and Partisans
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Reading Genesis 6 in Prison
Out at the prison we were working our way through Genesis and got snagged on the opening verses of Genesis 6:
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Get Out of Your Head
In Part 1 of The Shape of Joy I describe what I call "the collapse of the self" in the modern world.
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Psalm 89
"But" Following up from our reflections on Psalm 88, Psalm 89 is an interesting reversal from the typical structure of the lament psalms.
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A Difficult Grace
I was finishing up Joseph Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity and it came to the part in the Apostles' Creed about how Jesus will "come again to…
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When Bonhoeffer Became a Christian
I was reading once more Eberhard Bethge's biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and was delighted to encounter again one my favorite parts of Dietrich…
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Friendship with the World
There's a passage in James 4 that gets a lot of attention in conservative Christian circles:
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On Holiness
I recently picked up Eugene Peterson's The Message to see how he rendered a text from the book of Isaiah.
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Psalm 88
"the darkness is my closest friend"
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Eros and Agape
Part 3, Covenant and Christ
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