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A Different Way to Read Letting a text touch your heart might mean slowing down or trying one of these techniques used by monks long ago. Chris Hall shares wisdom about the best ways…

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Knowing God Means More Than Describing Him "For all my love of language," writes Carolyn Arends in this column from Christianity Today, "I’ve been troubled by a growing sense that I need to pay more…

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Reading the Bible with the Mind and the Heart "God not only originated the Bible through human authorship; he remains with it always. It is God's book. No one owns it but God himself. It is the loving…

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Meditation is Different than Application How does meditation differ from application when we are spending time in God's Word? Jan Johnson joins us to share an excerpt from her book, *Meeting God in…

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Why Meditate on Scripture? There can be a lot of questions about the discipline of meditation on Scripture: What does it mean? How can I practice it? How is it different from prayer? Jan…

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The Jogging Monk and the Exegesis of the Heart James Bryan Smith tells the story of how he came to read Scripture by "listening to the text, reflecting on it, asking not merely what it means, but what it is…

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Relaxing into Another Reality In this reflection from Jan Johnson on a particular time spent doing lectio divina on Matthew 8:23-27, she invites us in several ways to imagine Jesus' calm…