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new writing at The Habitus
I’ve started writing my Substack newsletter again. It’s been a while since I last did, but I enjoyed thinking through this as I was writing. Thinking about God
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water, sun, and soil
I grew up in a Chicago suburb that was bordered by corn fields. Seemingly endless expanses of land where they grow the sweetest corn you’ve ever tasted. In a sense, it is remarkable that this exists at all. During planting season, a farmer will drive a tractor pulling a machine that plants seeds. Row after…
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a humbling fact after years of Bible study
Like so many others, I welcomed in the year by starting another read-through of the Bible1. I begin at the beginning and that means I’m reading Genesis right now. I’ve read it many times before, especially as I was preparing to preach it in 2023. And even as I just read through it again, I…
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endings beginnings
Here we are at the end of another year, on the cusp of a new one. I’ve spent most of the day writing in new notebooks. Perhaps that is jumping the gun a little bit, but one of them is preparing for Sunday’s sermon As I write this, though, I am weary. It has been…
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the encouragement of Jesus’ humble birth
The One who needs nothing became needy. The One who created all things became helpless and dependent. And yet, at the same time, he upheld the universe by his powerful word. His first bed was a feeding trough. He was not born in a palace, he wasn’t even born in a stable. Tradition holds that…