Advent Meditations- Saturday, December 16
<<Return to Advent Meditations page Psalm 30,32, 42, 43; Haggai 2:1-9; Matt. 24:1-14; Rev. 3:1-
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<<Return to Advent Meditations page Psalm 30,32, 42, 43; Haggai 2:1-9; Matt. 24:1-14; Rev. 3:1-
This morning, I stood next to Southwest alumnus the Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel, MDiv ’96,
“Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the
It is early January and I am writing at Gladstone’s Library in Northern Wales. The
It is sixty-one degrees outside today in Oxford, England, where I am teaching at Christ
Greg Garret (@Greg1Garrett) currently serves as the Writer-in-Residence at Seminary of the Southwest. As a member of the adjunct faculty of the seminary, Greg helps future leaders of the Church to write, interpret, and communicate effectively.
I had such big plans for this Lent. After past seasons where I temporarily renounced things (Diet Coke, meat, dessert) or took on things (like the Lent when Cathy Boyd, Billy Tweedie, and I decided to take on bluegrass as a spiritual discipline), I had isolated a practice I thought would be a good fit for this stage of my life, one full of joy and difficulty: I was going to read and re-read the Psalms, and simultaneously to read N. T. Wright’s book The Case for the Psalms, a book on praying and living the Psalms back into the center of our spiritual lives.
That, at least, was my plan.
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