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What Can We Learn from the Life of Patrick of Ireland?

Imagine this: you are kidnapped by raiders from your life of plenty and safety, then taken to a country across the sea and doomed to life-enforced servitude. Then, you have a dream that you must escape. You miraculously make it back home, but remain restless—”Why was I so fortunate to get away?” You might wonder if you were made for a greater purpose. “How shall I live my life in light of such rescue?” Acknowledging the grace of almighty God who brought him through trial to this place, he commits to serving him and to go across another sea to...

A Mature Christian Is a Humble Christian

J. C. Ryle called pride the “oldest and commonest of sins” and humility “the rarest and most beautiful of graces.”[1]Medieval theologian Bernard of Clairvaux said, “It is a great and rare virtue to preserve humility in the midst of honors.”[2] Thomas à Kempis advised reading the Bible with “humility, simplicity, and faith, and never seek a reputation for being learned.”[3] If Humility is one of the highest virtues of the Christian life, more desirable than praise, and the best posture for reading scripture why is pride so common and humility so rare? Humility is Rare Jesus gives a vivid picture...

Review: Digital Liturgies

About a year ago I realized that much of my thinking about technology would not be categorized as wisdom. Many people in my church work in technology and I didn’t have much to offer them by way of pastoral wisdom. I started looking for good writers and thinkers to help me, and someone recommended Samuel James. I subscribed to his newsletter and he quickly became one of my favourite writers on technology and the Christian faith. When his new book Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age came out, I jumped at the chance to read it. Spoiler Alert: This...

Exposing The Good in Digital Distractions

When we are in a quiet room alone, we struggle. Our past haunts our present with the noise of our previous mistakes. The future too, with all of its unknowns, brings anxiety. Blaise Pascal, writing almost four hundred years ago, observed this in Pensées (Thoughts). He said even when the present is delightful, we hate to see it pass away and so we make every effort to prolong it, making light of it, instead of enjoying it for what it is. Digital distractions all begin with intentional choice. How difficult it is to be fully present. Pascal surmised, “we never...

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