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Thanksgiving for the Big Picture

November 23, 2017 by Gary Neal Hansen 8 Comments

Giving Thanks for the Big Picture

This is just a quick note on Thanksgiving Day. That’s American Thanksgiving in my family, since we have celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving last month. (Same menu, same gratitude, no Pilgrims.) I am, of course, grateful to you. I’m glad you read what I write here on my blog and elsewhere. What is a writer without readers? […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry Tagged With: Psalm 136, Thanksgiving

Enrollment Is Open for My Lectio Divina Class!

November 20, 2017 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Hello friends! I haven’t posted on my blog for a long while due to publication deadlines and other obstacles. But at several speaking engagements I promised to run my online course on classical lectio divina again this Advent. The classic form of this ancient spiritual discipline is far richer (and a far better starting point) than […]

Filed Under: Bible, Prayer, Uncategorized Tagged With: Advent class, Lectio divina, online course

The Base Hit Sermon (Letters to a Young Pastor)

July 6, 2017 by Gary Neal Hansen 5 Comments

Dear ______: Thanks for your note, which brings me back to the topic at hand: preaching. And baseball. A couple of letters ago I was musing about the “home run” sermon you heard from a famous preacher. I suggested that when you step into a pulpit, hitting a home run is not really a great […]

Filed Under: Ministry, Seminary Tagged With: base hit sermon, baseball, preaching, Ty Cobb

Exploring Authentic Church

June 21, 2017 by Gary Neal Hansen 11 Comments

I have not blogged on the topic of Christian community for a long time. That doesn’t mean I’ve left the topic behind. In the last couple of years just about everything in my life has been in major transition. It has not been possible to keep every project rolling forward. I have a long-term book project […]

Filed Under: Community, Theology

Summer Reading (Letters to a Young Pastor)

June 15, 2017 by Gary Neal Hansen 9 Comments

summer reading

Dear ______: Sorry I haven’t written for a while. Between some travels to speaking engagements and countless medical visits as my hand continues to recover I have not been able to quite keep up. But when you wrote that you had a guilty conscience I had to write back. If you were confessing an actual […]

Filed Under: books, Ministry, Seminary

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