Friends, Comrades, Allies,
Here at the end of September/beginning of October, I want to share this lovely passage with you:
Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around...
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John Eldredge
Friends, Comrades, Allies,
Here at the end of September/beginning of October, I want to share this lovely passage with you:
Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around...
READ MOREJohn Eldredge
A very happy summer to each of you!
I really hope you have something on the calendar by way of rest and joy this summer. Even if it’s “only” evenings on the balcony or your back deck, summer can be so lovely and restorative. Let the...
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Spring has finally come to Colorado. Last evening, Stasi and I took a lovely after-dinner walk through the neighborhood. The sun is setting later each day, and it was one of those wonderful evenings where the deer were out and browsing, a few...
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This is a letter on how to pray for the people you love—especially those who do not yet love Jesus or see the Truth in him.
I’m moved to share this for two reasons.
First, because it’s where many of my own heart-cries have been...
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Shia’s life and story entice us to embrace the path of surrender and dependence on God in our masculine initiation.
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John Eldredge
Well…2023 is out of the gates and down the track––even though my soul didn’t really get on board until late January! (Friends of ours still have their Christmas decorations up; their souls haven’t been able to make the transition yet!) Ready or...
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With the aroma of Bullet Frontier, the world faded back. There were no limits to the love bursting in the father’s heart in me as I watched my son.
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John Eldredge
Dear Friends,
A very merry Christmastide to you…wherever and whenever this letter finds you!
I don’t need to say much this month; the holidays for most people are typically full enough.
I do want to say, before anything else...
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Dear Friends,
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story—
...
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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.– Psalm 23:1 In his beautiful book Life Without Lack, Dallas Willard unpacks the meaning of Psalm 23:1 with these words: I am in the care of someone else. I’m not the one in charge. I’ve taken my kingdom...
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I’m guessing that the biggest issue facing you right now is not what present to get someone for Christmas or how many different kinds of cookies to bake. There are larger forces at play in each of our lives.
From conversations I am having...
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Many years ago, someone shared this quote with me, and it stayed with me because it names something so deeply true to the human predicament:
“The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it...
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I find it interesting to be in the last quarter of my life…at least if you divide a lifetime by 20 year increments. As I approach my 63rd birthday, I sometimes catch myself in my dreaming. I want to partner with God in so many ways bringing his...
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Our podcast the weeks of June 20th and 27th offers a conversation with several members of our team about how everybody’s doing these days, especially with regard to our reserve tanks. I’ve been polling a number of mature people lately—inside the...
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Over the years, what I’ve tried to do with these letters is to share with you what I’m hearing from Jesus, and what I’m seeing unfold in the world, so that we all might walk more closely with him and strengthen ourselves with his strength in this...
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I want to begin this letter with a big, resounding Thank You!
We finished our ministry year in December right where our donations needed to be! You helped us out of the red and into the black with an outpouring of generosity, and I just...
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It doesn’t matter if I’m onstage or not. I find the communal experience of a rock concert achieves a kind of transcendence. It’s the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I’ve always thought church...
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the...
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How do we go about living in the Kingdom of God, on a daily basis? What is practical? What is sustainable? And how do we make it last? As Eugene Peterson, author of the Message paraphrase of the Scriptures, reminded us, prayer is about being...
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Dear Friends,
A most heartfelt Merry Christmas and Christmastide to you and yours! If you receive this by post I’m not sure when it will reach you, but wherever you are in the holiday season may joy be yours in abundance!
After year...
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