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Psalm 123

10/28/20

1 min

By Chad Bird

Chad meditates on what it means to look to God and how He looks at us.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

10/28/20

10 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

The year was 1466. We remember Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. The reading is an excerpt from Psalm 60 in the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650.
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

10/27/20

9 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

The year was 1978. We remember the first printing of the New International Version of the Bible. The reading is from N.T. Wright, "Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense."
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
1 Samuel 14:36-15:9 (Episode 238)

10/26/20

1 min

By Chad Bird | Daniel Emery Price

Bad oaths and misplaced piety.
- Old Testament
- Scripture
Monday, October 26, 2020

10/26/20

10 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

The year was 1966. We remember the World Congress on Evangelism. Today's reading is a good word on the church's future from the Apocalypse of St. John.
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
Sunday, October 25, 2020

10/25/20

10 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

The year was 1400. We remember the poet, servant, and pilgrim Geoffrey Chaucer. The reading comes from another English storyteller and Christian, John Bunyan, his "He Who Would Valiant Be" from the Pilgrim's Progress.
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
177: Clement of Alexandria - True martyrdom is the knowledge of the only true God

10/25/20

4 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Stop Showing Off and Get Back in Line... In part two of our reading of Clement of Alexandria’s, The Praises of Martyrdom Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved, we discuss when martyrdom isn’t martyrdom and why the topic is more relevant today than ever.
- Christian History
Saturday, October 24, 2020

10/24/20

10 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

The year was 1923. We remember the poet, agnostic, and Christian convert Denise Levertov. The reading is from Levertov, "A Cure of Souls."
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
Friday, October 23, 2020

10/23/20

8 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

The year was 1456. We remember San Giovanni da Capistrano, the fiery Franciscan preacher, a heresy hunter, and septuagenarian soldier. The reading is a quote from John of Damascus.
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
1 Corinthians 16:1-24 (Episode 185)

10/22/20

1 min

By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen

Erick and Daniel wrap up Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians.
- New Testament
- Scripture
In the Ring: Preaching Reality into Times of Crisis with Dr. Bruce Schuchard

10/22/20

2 mins

By Joel Hess | Paul Koch

A crisis isn’t all bad. Crisis encourages us to recognize who we are and what is real. Ringside meets the Craft of Preaching with Dr. Bruce Schuchard exploring the crazy history of this sinful world and a preacher’s response to it. The Cross of Christ speaks volumes above anything that is offered as an empty solution. Come Lord Jesus!
Hope for When Bible Reading is Burdensome

10/22/20

3 mins

By Gretchen Ronnevik

When we approach the Bible from a hyper-individualistic viewpoint, the burden to be in it daily is on our individual shoulders, the burden to interpret and understand it is all on our individual shoulders, and we can end up sitting down to what can appear at first glance to be an enormous to-do list we cannot live up to--an activity to dread. It's the "just read it and then do it" method.
- Scripture