In this episode, Blake sits down with writer, Gretchen Ronnevik. They discuss how her initial website for sharing knitting patterns she'd written led to a career in writing.
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“Do you think we are going to make it?” Every vocation asks this eventually. When husband and wife see beyond the fig leaves that covered all the shame during courtship and early marriage, one asks “Are we going to make it?” When friendship hits that make-or-break moment, one asks, “Is this friendship worth it?” Some vocations…
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Ministry is unimaginable apart from community, not just in a community, but with a community. The rugged individualist, John Wayne, and the celebrity pastor are not models to emulate. Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto. Ministry doesn’t begin isolated in the pastor’s study, but in the heart of the Triune Community. The…
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Ada Calhoun writes in her article, To Stay Married, Embrace Change in the New York Times on 4/21/2017, “Several long-married people I know have said this exact line: ‘I’ve had at least three marriages. They’ve just all been with the same person’.” It is the same in the…
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It must have been destiny, or pre-destiny. I didn’t choose Ephesians, it chose me. Romans reached out and beckoned Augustine as those kids on the other side of the hedge sang “tolle lege—Take and read!” Romans had a similar effect on Luther and Lloyd-Jones. Chrysostom lived in John. Spurgeon was…
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The long-time pastor’s wife at Trinity, Nordis Christenson, famously said, “The Christian life would be easy—if it wasn’t so daily.”
Human nature, according to the good book, is bad. Really bad. Some call it a low anthropology…
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Six months into my seminary internship year, if you could’ve seen my thought bubble it would read, “I think I’ve said everything that I can think of saying.” I started to worry about where I would find material for decades of preaching. I’m not worried anymore. If I was…
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