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Tag: Eugene Peterson

“Becoming Grateful People” with Susan Ward

“Becoming Grateful People” with Susan Ward

In this “Space for God” devotional, Susan Ward guides us into the different facets of gratitude we encounter in scripture and in life.  She introduces us to practices that won’t just help us feel grateful but will help us become grateful people.  She helps us...
“You Are What You Contemplate”

“You Are What You Contemplate”

In this “Space for God” devotional, Drew Masterson (Coracle Dir. of Comms & Development) guides us into a profound insight shared by artists, neuroscientists, and the Apostle Paul: our lives are profoundly shaped by the things to which we pay...
SOUNDINGS: “The Sweetness of Weakness”

SOUNDINGS: “The Sweetness of Weakness”

“Emptying precedes filling.”  Eugene Peterson   My favorite living novelist is the Canadian Roman Catholic, Michael D. O’Brien.  I’ve read most of his thirteen novels, and his Father Elijah remains one of the most formative works of fiction in my life.  For all...

Bono and Eugene Peterson on the Psalms

I’m tempted to say that there is nothing more important that you could be doing with the next 20 minutes of your life than watching this 20 minute documentary of a conversation between Eugene Peterson and U2’s frontman Bono on the Psalms.  This is very...