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Bedford Baptist
Nov 1, 20233 min read
Saints
We were at the Sunday afternoon worship service at the nursing home when John said something to me that he had said on another occasion:...
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Bedford Baptist
Oct 25, 20234 min read
Three Types of Prayer
What should happen when we pray? What kind of thoughts or words are we supposed to have when we pray? If we take our lead from Scripture,...
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Bedford Baptist
Oct 19, 20233 min read
Rules of Life
One of the things I have long admired about Catholicism is the idea, found in the monastic wings of the Church, of submitting to a rule...
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Bedford Baptist
Oct 11, 20232 min read
Gideon and the Absence of God
When Gideon, that famous leader of Israel who constantly wondered whether he was correctly hearing God’s voice, first encountered the...
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Bedford Baptist
Oct 5, 20233 min read
Stories, stories, stories, and the Great Story
Every day I am invited to pay attention to stories. At the top of our social media feeds run the stories of our friends and...
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Bedford Baptist
May 24, 20234 min read
A Few Reflections on Home
As most of you probably know, Dee and I spent sixteen years in New Brunswick before coming back here to our home province and city. It’s...
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Bedford Baptist
Apr 1, 20232 min read
Questions about Death and the Christian Hope, Part 3
Living With a View to the Resurrection In two previous posts I attempted to summarize the biblical witness about death and the hope we...
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Bedford Baptist
Mar 31, 20233 min read
Questions About Death and Christian Hope, Part 2
In the previous post, I began to share some reflections on what the Bible has to say about death and the hope that we have in Christ. I...
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Bedford Baptist
Mar 30, 20234 min read
Questions about Death and Christian Hope, Part 1
On each of the last two Saturdays I have attended funerals. One was for a family member, and I was in the position of leading the...
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Bedford Baptist
Feb 23, 20234 min read
A Short On-Ramp: A Pastor's Appreciation of Church
On the drive from Saint John to Fredericton you come to a point where Highway 7, which passes over the Trans-Canada Highway, loops down...
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Bedford Baptist
Feb 10, 20233 min read
The Longing for Meaning: Phoebe Bridgers' "Chinese Satellite"
The past few weeks I’ve found myself listening over and over again to a song from Phoebe Bridgers’ haunting 2020 album Punisher called...
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Bedford Baptist
Feb 4, 20233 min read
The Importance of Ordinary Prayer, Pt. 2: Saying Grace
In one of the segments of the 1948 Disney anthology film Melody Time, the character of Johnny Appleseed sings a song as he gathers the...
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Bedford Baptist
Jan 19, 20233 min read
The Importance of Ordinary Prayer, Pt. 1: Waking and Sleeping
Prayer can sometimes seem either overly simple or overly challenging. On the one hand, prayer can be as simple as thinking of a need and...
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Bedford Baptist
Jan 11, 20234 min read
Corinth, Lost, and Transformation
This is a post I wrote and posted on another platform in early 2022. Given that the New Year is often greeted by thoughts about making...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 31, 20225 min read
Detailed Recommendations for 2023 Reading Challenge
Reading books that support our Bible reading and our life of prayer and faithful discipleship can be a huge catalyst for growth in our...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 23, 20222 min read
A Little Christmas Theology
On my shelves here at the church are a pair of matching books by the late Scottish theologian Thomas Torrance, whose work I quoted in...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 16, 20223 min read
The Return of Christmas?
A year ago I wondered whether Christmas as it was in the past would ever return. Two years of governments playing tag with an elusive...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 9, 20225 min read
Reflections at Midday
I woke up early yesterday morning, earlier than usual. Through my living room window I saw a lot of darkness before my place on the couch...
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Bedford Baptist
Dec 1, 20224 min read
Doctor My Eyes: Gospel-Corrected Vision
Not long before we left New Brunswick, I was scanning through the book sale display at Fredericton Public Library (one of the places I...
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Bedford Baptist
Nov 25, 20223 min read
Resources for Prayer, pt. 3: the Orthodox Tradition
In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, there is a consistent emphasis on what the fathers called the “prayer of the heart.” Taking as a...
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