by Alan Fadling | Apr 30, 2024 | Prayer
This was originally posted on May 5, 2021 on https://www.unhurriedliving.com/. A Practice of Silent Prayer Recently, I’ve restarted my daily practice of silent prayer. Like many who try this practice, I feel an immense amount of resistance arising within me against my...
by Susan C. Lim | Apr 23, 2024 | Scripture, Sermons
Love Loving the Word of God is a great pursuit, but it’s not always easy. Like most love relationships, there are inevitable highs and lows. And as teachers of the Bible, many of us walk a delicate balance between scouring and savoring the Scriptures. We carefully...
by Paul Koptak | Apr 16, 2024 | Book Reviews, Preaching
How Will We Preach and Teach from Proverbs? Reading, let alone preaching, from The Book of Proverbs comes with its challenges. Sometimes those sayings can seem just plain obvious and not much help in making real life change. John Goldingay’s new commentary reminds us...
by Scott Bullock | Apr 9, 2024 | Ministry
Lessons Learned in Quarantine and Beyond Do you remember that first Sunday when you stayed cloistered in your home with the immediate family, when you exchanged your dapper church clothes for a pair of pajamas and made pancakes in the pan instead of preaching from the...
by Scott Bullock | Apr 2, 2024 | Book Reviews, Great Books
A Great (and Weighty) Work of Literature That Will Delight Like Moby Dick and War and Peace, Les Misérables is a hefty novel. Affectionately known as the ‘Brick’ for its formidable length, it could either frighten us away or be kept on a night stand as a trusty...
