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February 2020

February 11, 2020

Themes & Memes | Christian Readings

Last week I wrote about the voice of many waters.[1] It's just a way that...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Guest Post, Crystal Ingle: True Beauty

Even on those days when we are ragged, haven’t change out of our pajamas, are...

March 2019

March 15, 2019

regarding the People of God and Christian Living (from the G+ collection)

The focus of this collection is on the people of God and Christian living. Discipleship...

March 07, 2019

on the Curiosities, Pragmatics, and Formation of the Minister (from the G+ collection)

We used to live in a time when there were far more pastoral scholars. A...

February 2019

February 01, 2019

on Prayer (from the G+ collection)

Some geeks used Google+ and actually knew what they were doing. Then some geeks like...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

The Year I Only Read 6 Books

The first year after seminary, I decided to slow down my readings. I research for...

January 19, 2019

Expecta Dominum: Waiting in faith this Advent season

There are few times since my opening blog posts with Patheos when I have shared...

January 03, 2019

Formation for Children: Reading to Eliseo in 2018

I have always contended that no one fully understands discipleship until one is discipling others. ...

January 01, 2019

Times of Refreshing and Restoring

Rarely do I take the opportunity to post an entire sermon. However, this is a...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

“give thanks” eucharisteo

This is a quick post about thanksgiving perspective. A lot of us have choices we...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Participating in God’s Will

Sometimes we find ourselves doing busywork in the Kingdom of God, active in our congregations,...

October 24, 2018

Killing vs. Counteracting Sin: Meditation and Other Practices

We're in a series on a specific type of sin in our day and age...

October 16, 2018

The Deadly Sin of Acedia

Scripture and leaders in the Early Church speak of deadly vices or sins. We would...

October 09, 2018

The Dilemma of the Sin of Omission

We all know that sin is bad. It’s difficult to keep from bad sin, but...

October 01, 2018

If We’re Not Bad, We’re Good . . . Right?

What does it take to be bad? We need to tune in to what Scripture...

September 2018

September 25, 2018

Paradox of Sin in 1 John

i. Let's Begin with a Paradox A paradox is like a conundrum or something that...

September 22, 2018

Jared & Mateo: The Undragoning of Eustace (a/v)

Mateo shares the deeper meaning behind a favorite scene from the Chronicles of Narnia, the...

September 18, 2018

Vernell Ingle reflects on the works of C.S. Lewis, pt. 6

I have certainly been impressed with my Dad's (Rev. Vernell Ingle's) knowledge of C.S. Lewis,...

September 12, 2018

Jared & Mateo: Hearing the Story for the 1st Time (a/v)

We're in the middle of a series on C.S. Lewis, who wrote extensively.[1] However, in...

September 11, 2018

Vernell Ingle reflects on the works of C.S. Lewis, pt. 5

Now we turn our attention to the centerpiece of the Narnia series, The Stone Table....

September 05, 2018

Language Acquisition (a/v): LEWIS, TOLKIEN, & PIAGET(?)

We're right in the middle of the series on C.S. Lewis.[1] Instead of posting an...

September 01, 2018

Vernell Ingle reflects on the works of C.S. Lewis, pt. 4

First of all, we're in a series on the works of C.S. Lewis. So catch...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

Vernell Ingle reflects on the works of C.S. Lewis, pt. 3

We continue our series on C.S. Lewis by Prof. Vernell Ingle, Faculty Chair at Messenger...

August 18, 2018

Vernell Ingle reflects on the works of C.S. Lewis, pt. 2

Once again, we enter into the realm of C.S. Lewis, as Vernell Ingle (Dad) reflects...

August 10, 2018

Vernell Ingle reflects on the works of C.S. Lewis

Early on, while writing for Patheos, I decided to highlight some great works from some...