5th Century Collect

5th Century Collect

Every Friday afternoon at 3:00 (about the time most of us are shutting down the work week), the famous preacher Charles Spurgeon met with pastors-in-training on some aspect of the pastoral craft. His presentations were not dry academic lectures but warm, candid, and...
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Didache

Bishop Philotheos (his name means “friend of God”) was rummaging through old documents in a monastery in Istanbul, Turkey in 1873. He discovered a cache of old Greek manuscripts in the library bound as a single volume and signed “Leon, notary and...
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W. H. Auden

Jay Panini recently retired after teaching English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College in Vermont. He describes a melancholy time in his early life as a graduate student at Oxford University in England. After a day of tedious research at a London library, he...
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Dionysius Prayer

Areopagus was the name given to the most iconic hill in Athens, Greece. This elevation of limestone, also called Mars Hill, was where the supreme council convened to hear important judicial cases. It was also a popular gathering place for people to debate and discuss...
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Eddie Espanoza

God can change people. I have experienced it, I have witnessed it firsthand, and surely the people featured in these daily prayer posts could attest to it. But let’s be honest. While we want to change, we also resist it. Change brings fear and discomfort. A.W....