Brad Blocksom

YouTube video by Contemplative Outreach The Method of Centering Prayer - Part 2, with Thomas Keating

The method of #CenteringPrayer - part 2 (20 min. video).

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#SpiritualFormation #Prayer #SpiritualDirection

Ep. 2,196: 2 Peter 3:13-14 Lectio Divina Meditation Podcast Episode · Bible Meditation Podcast · 12/07/2023 · 8m

From my #meditation this morning…

My word or phrase: “be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish”

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#LectioDivina #Bible #Epistles

Abusing Power In God's Name - Missio Alliance "Every day, men and women who claim to be serving God abuse the power they’ve been trusted with. This is a form of spiritualized abuse, which psychologist Diane Langberg describes as 'God’s people usi...

“There is worldly power, which is exerted over persons, and there is godly power, which works relationally with and among persons.” -David Fitch

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#Power #Church #SpiritualAbuse

YouTube video by BeachBoysRemembered Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coupe"

“And coming off the line when the light turns green
Well, she blows them out of the water like you never seen
I get pushed out of shape, and it's hard to steer
When I get rubber in all four gears” -Brian Wilson & Roger Val Christian (1963)

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#RockNroll #Music

Are You Going to Wash My Feet?: Imaginative Contemplation: John 13:1-17 Podcast Episode · Contemplative at Home · 03/31/2025 · 22m

If you’ve never tried #ImaginativeContemplation this is a good one…

“nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them.

If you know these things, you are blessed, if you do them.”

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#Meditation #ContemplativePrayer #SpiritualFormation #Bible #Gospels

St. Ignatius of Antioch – The Story of his Martyrdom Theology News & Book Reviews for Christian Readers

Today is the feast day of St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was martyred in the 1st Century. Here's that story:

The priesthood of all believers did not make everyone into church workers; rather, it turned every kind of work into a sacred calling.

~ Gene Edward Veith Jr. #Covo #Covocational

#HumanFlourishing #LoveYourNeighbor #Church

YouTube video by Raised by Hippies The Origins Of Surf Rock | Reverb. Rhythm. Revolution.

The history and origins of surf rock (13min. Video)!

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#Music #RockNroll #SurfSound #MusicHistory

YouTube video by Frontiers Music srl Stryper - "Winter Wonderland" - Official Lyric Video

81 days until #Christmas!

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#JustSayin

Another Jesus. Another Kingdom. Another Mission. Another Gospel. Another Christianity...

“they have a gross misunderstanding of the nature of the kingdom of God…”

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#Church #Gospel #GoodNews #KingdomOfGod #Missional #Jesus #Evangelicalism #Bible #Gospels

Your Timeline in an Abusive Ministry As I mentioned last week, I’m writing a book about church hurt and how to heal from it.

The stages of spiritual abuse (according to Mary DeMuth):

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#SpiritualAbuse #Church #Cults

Missiology Lectures Fuller Seminary's annual conference on missiology.

For anyone in and around Southern California in mid-October: the 2025 #Missiology lecture series!!

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#FullerSeminary #Mission

If You Are Elevating Charlie Kirk, Consider Who You Are Crushing Underfoot The Time To Listen Is Now

How can my unqualified praise of Charlie Kirk hurt my brown brothers and sisters in Christ?

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#Bible #Politics #Racism #Hate #Oppression #Christianity

Good News to the Poor in Luke-Acts—1 The Pervasiveness of Luke’s Interest

Joel Green on Good News to the Poor in Luke-Acts (Part 1).

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#Bible #Gospels #BiblicalTheology

First President of the United States, George Washington, said, “If the #freedom of #speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.”
#1stAmendment

YouTube video by Daily Dose of Hebrew Psalm 6:4

Today’s Daily Dose of Hebrew!

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#Bible #HebrewBible #Writings #Psalms

“If any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name of Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted.”
~The Last Battle

To all those who are tired of being told to hate their neighbor, I give you Texas State Representative James Talarico:

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#Love #Hate #Politics #Jesus #Christianity

YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic Love's In Need Of Love Today

Stevie Wonder’s message that Love’s in Need of Love Today is as needed now as it was in 1974 when this song came out…

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#Music #Love

#Ethics

Thanks for addressing this. 1 of my major concerns w/ Christianity: we go to #church faithfully, listen to #sermons, volunteer in children’s ministry, attend a small group, have regular personal devotions. Yet I see so little of the kind of radical life transformation like we read in the #Bible!?!

Theological Interpretation of Scripture Matters—4 The Rise of Scientific Biblical Studies

There was a time when the study of the #Bible WAS The study of #Theology!?!

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#TheologicalInterpretationOfScripture #TIS

Was Junia really an Apostle?

#ChurchHistory #Egalitarianism #Bible

What is moral failure, anyway? How we minimize character issues with the language we use

Remember when the Mars Hill elders led us to believe that a Bullying Leadership style and Plagiarism were not moral failure? This type of thing is still going on today!

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#Church #SpiritualAbuse #MoralFailure #Character #Leadership

What Kind of Man Is This? A new response to life’s troubling, traumatic events

Who is Jesus?

#Bible #Jesus #KingdomOfGod

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Good News to the Poor in Luke-Acts—3 What Does “Good News to the Poor” Look Like?

The next installment in my series on Good News to the Poor in Luke-Acts...

#HermeneuticsIsEverything #Bible #Hermeneutics #BibleAsLiterature

Exposing Darkness in Leaders Is Terrifying But it must be done

I believe God is cleaning house of greedy, unwavering, bombastic, prideful leaders. And he is using the quiet voices of the “small” to do so. -Mary DeMuth

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#SpiritualAbuse #Bible #Church #Leadership

At St. Cuthbert’s Cave with St. Stephen’s University students teaching on Cuthbert’s evangelization of Northumbria in the seventh century and our need to stay open to miracles in the twenty-first century.