Category: Spiritual Formation
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How the New Covenant Rescued Me from Lotto Lust (Guest Post)
Read more: How the New Covenant Rescued Me from Lotto Lust (Guest Post)I awoke this morning with this thought rolling around in my mind: “What would I do with all that money.” In case you have been under a rock for the last three days, this morning’s thought dawned courtesy of the Mega Millions lottery drawing on Friday March 30th. The story of the biggest lotto ever…
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Meditating on Maundy Memories
Read more: Meditating on Maundy MemoriesWhat is the Biblical concept of remembrance? Well, let’s warm up: Growing up, what do you remember doing with your family for Easter traditions? For some, Easter Egg hunts are almost certainly a part of the picture. Perhaps you remember the annual gifting of some pastel-ey Easter basket filled with chocolates and bright colors. A…
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Actualization through Acting ? Can the Fiction in Drama and Role Play Actually Help us See Reality better?
Read more: Actualization through Acting ? Can the Fiction in Drama and Role Play Actually Help us See Reality better?As most readers are aware, I am currently a seminary student. Most people think this probably means a lot of reading. Lots of writing. Lots of Greek and Hebrew. And… they’re right. But, this training involves some other activities. Activities such as what I will be doing this weekend. On Saturday, I and the eight…
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“Use Your Imagination!”
Read more: “Use Your Imagination!”For some of us, the imperative in this title might be license to freedom- a liberating release from the rigidity of the daily and mundane to play in the boundless world of our richest thoughts. For others (and most of the time, me), it spawns a sign or a roll of the eyes. “What good…
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Prayer as Ethics
Read more: Prayer as Ethics“…you become better and better by looking for so great a good which is both sought in order to be found and found in order to be sought…” -St. Augustine “Ethics” means more than understanding how one should act in a certain situation in order to be free from blame. This type of ethics is…
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Joining in the Dance of the Merrymakers: A Meditation on Jeremiah 31
Read more: Joining in the Dance of the Merrymakers: A Meditation on Jeremiah 31Over the past month or so, I have been making my way through the book of Jeremiah. Sometimes I read through a number of chapters and at other times, something sticks with me from the text and I can’t get past a few verses. This happened about a week and a half ago as I…
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Baptized with the Spirit: A Meditation
Read more: Baptized with the Spirit: A Meditation“I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” (John the Baptist, Mark 1:8) Although many of us are unable to follow, we really ought to commend the Pentecostals for doing something with the notion of Holy Spirit baptism. For the rest of us, it is subsumed under the…
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Call in the Understudy: Does Justification Play too much of a Leading Role on the Stage of Soteriology
Read more: Call in the Understudy: Does Justification Play too much of a Leading Role on the Stage of SoteriologyOver the last few decades, our precious protestant friend Justification has received a lot of tough press and some heavy abuse. Stendahl, Sanders, Dunn, and Wright have all added their contributions to the theological boxing tournament seeking to knock out an understanding of justification (esp in Pauline Literature) that may be more informed and conditioned…