Registration is now open for my online class on prayer for Lent! It’s called “Focus on Prayer.” Together we’ll learn about and practice three classic ways of praying that will help bring new focus and renewal to your prayer life. I hope you’ll join us! No matter what background you come from something here’s bound […]
Treasure in Earthen Vessels (The Writer’s Inner Life)
(This is the fourth post in a series on writing an icon in the Orthodox Christian tradition. To start at the beginning, click here.) Once the lines are drawn and inscribed on the gesso board, I’m itching to get my brushes and add some paint. Not so fast. My teachers had a very specific step-by-step […]
Do You Cite Your Sources in Sermons? (Letters to a Young Pastor)
Dear ______: Well I suppose you are right on both counts: I didn’t quite answer your question, and I didn’t explain my most interesting point very well. Sorry. I’ll give it another go. You asked Just how much do pastors depend other people’s commentaries in their sermon development? How much is reading or quoting others […]
Is Faith Simple? Should it Be? (Heidelberg Catechism Q60)
Question 60 is one of the unsung heroes of the Heidelberg Catechism (you know — that’s the summary of biblical Christianity from a Reformed perspective that I’ve been blogging on since it’s 450th anniversary in 2013). Maybe it’s better to say it’s one of the hinge points. You might argue it’s the culmination of the […]
The Lines of the Image (The Writer’s Inner Life)
(This post is third in a series on writing an icon in the Orthodox Christian tradition. To start at the beginning, click here.) If I were more advanced, I would be putting my own drawing on the board. I would work on a classical model, thinking hard about issues of geometry, style, and symbolism as well […]
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