Things that helped this week…
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A couple of things this week that were immensely helpful…
The first was a post by Don Miller on his blog: The Context for Spirituality is not Spirituality
If we think we are going to grow in faith by sitting around at a Bible study, we are wrong. That stuff is fine, but without a story, without diving into something really difficult, something that requires us to look to God for support and wisdom and comfort, it will be more difficult to become a person of great faith.
The second was an old talk by Tim Keller: The New Jerusalem. The stand-out for me in this was his discussion of the statement in Revelation that God is ‘making all things new’. He brought out the distinction – lost in english — between chronological newness and the quality of newness/freshness. That everything that God touches becomes fresh and new; there is endless opening up and discovery. We’re so used to decay and deterioration that we only experience this with chronologically new things, but with God and in the New Creation all that changes…
Desiring the Kingdom
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James K.A Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom is one of the most interesting books that I’ve read this year. I’ve just found an mp3 of a talk based on the book at www.calvin.edu/january/2010/smith.htm. It picks up on a lot of the key points from the book, so makes a great intro if you haven’t read it…
Hauerwas on the Life of a Theologian
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