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Episode 131 provides a sample chapter from the audio book version of “The Capsule”. The chapter is a reflection on the gift and privilege of reading. The book is available in paperback, e-book and audio book. A link to a “one stop” webpage showing the vendors selling the book can be found at https://books2read.com/thecapsule A sampler of the paperb…
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Episode 130 centers on a discussion of the inner room, referred to by Christ in Matthew 6. Christ’s call to private prayer in an inner room of one’s house has an interesting 20th century parallel. During Apollo missions to the Moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the lunar orbiting command module pilot was behind the Moon for half of each orbit.…
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Episode 129 recounts Walt’s adventure of seeing a total solar eclipse from northern Ohio in April of 2024. The episode explores the comparison of seeing photos of a total solar eclipse with actually seeing one live. The comparison is extended for those of us who believe in Christ. We know of Him incompletely in this life. What will it be like to se…
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Episode 128 centers on a study of Psalm 46. I had the privilege of teaching the study during the week that I stayed at a Hospitality House, nicknamed the Hangar, in Landscheid, Germany. The Hangar is an outreach of Cadence International, a mission organization which focuses on the needs of the military. They can be found at https://cadence.org/. Th…
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Episode 126 is an exploration of the Gospel accounts of what happened when Christ encountered the dead. Dead doesn’t stay dead. This has far-reaching and staggering implications for the life of every human being, both for now and into eternity. The picture is that of a painting depicting the raising to life of the son of the widow of Nain. . .…
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This episode contains some thoughts about an extraordinary church service known as the Asbury Revival of 2023. This episode contains some thoughts on criteria which could be applied to seek to determine the genuiness of this revival. It also contains discussion of some parallels between what is happening in Asbury in 2023 with a series of revivals …
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Episode 122 is a post concerning what may be the largest public reading of Scripture ever held. This is a brief retrospective on the special Christmas Eve broadcast held by the astronauts of the crew of Apollo 8, humanity’s first voyagers to the Moon. The photograph known as Earthrise was taken by the crew of Apollo 8. It shows the remarkable contr…
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This episode centers on a discussion which my wife Julie and I had about a question from one of her Bible Study women. They read Jen Wilkin's book "None Like Him" about God's attributes He does not share with us (Omni-present, omniscient, etc). Julie got a question from someone in her study asking, in essence: "Now that I know about these, what do …
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Episode 119 centers on a discussion of the Lord Jesus' parable of the wheat and the weeds found in Matthew 13:24-30 as well as the explanation given by the Lord in Matthew 13:36-43. Two specific applications look at the question: "Why doesn't God remove evil from the world?" as well asking us to expand our focus beyond the evils of our world.…
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Audio-Post-11 is a reading of an article on my original blog School of the Solitary Place. In this post, I discuss several graces available to us in our time and place, particularly, for English speakers, the grace of having multiple translations of the Bible available to us in English. The article can be found at https://schoolofthesolitaryplace.b…
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Episode 118 explores some examples of those who realized that they needed to take their faith and walk in Christ more seriously. What they did, to use a sports phrase, was to "step up their game." A link to John Piper's lesson on how George Mueller (1805-1898) [pictured above] took his faith practice to a new level can be found at https://www.desir…
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Episode 117 centers on how our culture's collective mindset is largely Christ-absent. The influence of Christ would largely be seen as irrelevant to our real-world, everyday lives. The episode also feature a discussion of several biblically-based, purposeful practices which a follower of Christ can do to keep Christ in our thoughts.…
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Finding Hidden Treasure returns after a long absence. Episode 116 is a discussion of how easily we are distracted. The 17th century theologian and philosopher Blaise Pascal observed how we are distraction-seekers, even to our own hurt. The discussion looks at some modern examples of this. It concludes by encouraging us to recognize our capacity for…
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This episode centers on a discussion of graces which God has given us in our time. One of those graces, for those of us in the English-speaking world, has been the presence of a number of excellent Bible translations available to us in English. One way of using that grace to our benefit is to be able to read more than one English translation of the…
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Episode 100 features a discussion on the start of the Restoring The Core Initiative five years ago. The discussion continues about the value of an encouraging type of discipleship and the value of the treasures we find in the "attic" of church history. The episode ends with the reading of an excerpt from a journal article by one of my theology prof…
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Episode 99 is the second of two parts of a reading of the article "The Morning and Evening Sacrifice: A Sacrifice of Praise through the Psalms." The article was written by Walter Hampel for the Ashland Theological Journal.A link to a pdf of "The Morning and Evening Sacrifice: A Sacrifice of Praise through the Psalms" can be found hereThe Songs of J…
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Episode 98 is Part 1 of a reading of the article "The Morning and Evening Sacrifice: A Sacrifice of Praise through the Psalms." The article was written by Walter Hampel for the Ashland Theological Journal.A link to a pdf of "The Morning and Evening Sacrifice: A Sacrifice of Praise through the Psalms" can be found hereThe Songs of Jesus: A Year of D…
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