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The praise that pours forth from the lips of . . . [Balm in Gilead / Summer Read…Quote…Reflect Series]

July 5, 2019 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Join me in pressing into the call to hunger and thirst for the Lord (individually and as part of the people of God in a particular place) in the mundane of study, vocation, and practice.

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Filed Under: Devotional, Quotes Tagged With: Augustine, Balm in Gilead, Confessions, intervarsity press, Marilynne Robinson, Read...Quote...Reflect

Restless is our heart . . .

January 4, 2019 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Inspired by lengthy conversations at Urbana Student Missions Conference (12/27-31) regarding resources on/practices in faithful witness and my family returning with a suitcase full of books, I am launching Read…Quote…Reflect.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christian Thought and Practice, Quotes Tagged With: Augustine, Confessions, Gungor, Read...Quote...Reflect, urbana student missions conference, Urbana18

Faith and Reason, Part 2: Augustine

August 17, 2018 by Mark Hansard 1 Comment

Augustine was instrumental in promoting the “faith seeking understanding” conception of knowledge.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Augustine, Confessions, faith, faith and reason, faith and reason series, grace, knowledge, Plato, reason, the fall, theology, will

James K.A. Smith on “Liturgical Discipleship”

June 7, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Discipleship, becoming Christ-like, empowered by the Spirit to image God to the world is not magic. Nor is it merely intellectual. It’s a matter of re-forming our loves, re-narrativing our identities, re-habituating our virtue. And that is centered in the practices of the people of God gathered by the Spirit around Christ’s Word and the table. Love […]

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Filed Under: Bearing the Image of God, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: 2014 Ancient Evangelical Future Conference, Anglican TV, Augustine, Confessions, form, james k a smith, liturgical catechesis, Liturgical Discipleship, Liturgical Discipleship: Worship as the Center of Spiritual Formation, liturgy, Love, spiritual formation, Trinity School for Ministry, virtue, worship

Late Have I Loved You

June 4, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 2 Comments

In last night’s Christian Devotional Classics (Evangelical Seminary) a fellow student shared how much he appreciated Gungor‘s “lifting” of the words of Augustine’s Confessions in Late have I loved you. As you may remember Augustine’s Confessions won ESN’s Best Christian Book of All Time and this is a beautiful selection from the text. Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so […]

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