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   This week on the Life with God podcast, British author Nick Page joins Nate for a conversation on reading the Bible with an open heart.

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   The editors of the Renovaré Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible write, ​“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 heart of God made visible and plain.”

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   In the pattern of those who wrote the Bible, we can tell our own stories of God at work in our lives. Rev. Terrence Klein writes, ​“Think of Confession as the sacrament of story. You come to tell God your story. You ask God to make sense of your life.” In this piece he explains the formal, Catholic practice of confession. Whatever your tradition, consider how you might prepare, present, and reflect on the story of your life as a way to open yourself to God’s forgiveness.

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   A Word-Centered Life, evangelical in the very best sense of that word, is one deeply grounded in Scripture. Chris Webb shares how we encounter Christ in the Bible. 

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   In this article on Biblical authority, Professor N.T. Wright says ​“as we submit to scripture, as we wrestle with the bits that don’t make sense, and as we hand through to a new sense that we haven’t thought of or seen before, God breathes into our nostrils his own breath — the breath of life.”

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   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 asking of me, what it is asking me to hear.”