RB: Chapter 6b – Restraint of Speech

In this 2nd part I will be using Rule Book of St. Benedict in English 1980 Edition
In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, But he who restrains his lips is wise. – Proverbs 10:19
Benedict, having already discussed that a disciple ought to be silent and listen now turns his instruction to the manner [...]

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RB: Chapter 6 – Of Silence

Rule of St Benedict Chapter 6
“For it befitteth a master to speak and teach; and it beseemeth a disciple to hold his peace and listen.”
In today’s culture it would appear listening is a lost art. I have always been amazed at spiritual novices who seem eager to one up those who are of greater spiritual [...]

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Absurd Living

I read a portion today from a work of Henri Nouwen called Spiritual Direction that struck my fancy since I have written on this:
Being formed in God’s likeness involves the struggle to move from absurd living to obedient listening. The word absurd contains the word surdus, which means “deaf”. Absurd living is a way of [...]

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Dispensational Hermeneutic Resource

Every now and again I find a site that is worth sharing.
This site is headed up by Tony Garland Th.M, Th.D. and features university/seminary level information from himself and others for self-study.
The neat thing about this site is the in depth nature of the tools and resources. The free 2 Volume commentary on Revelation, lessons [...]

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Basic Bible Doctrines in Outline for New Believers

I drafted a series for the new believers we had that would explain the foundations of the faith. These outlines became core cirriculum in our discipleship groups. Recently I was contacted for the electronic copy of those outlines and rolled them up into a single pdf which is free for downloading here
http://faithandinches.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/bbd_outline_book.pdf
They are written from [...]

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Biblical Contemplation

There is a lot of confusion about Biblical Contemplation. Some are tossing the baby out with the bath water.
This teaching, of mine, is from taken from Psalm 119:9-16 and was given on a Sunday morning in early 2007 after I learned about a movement known as the Emergent Church and the concern we were heading [...]

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Easy Prey

I thought this news story posted on cnn.com was worth sharing:
Snake eats family dog as kids watch
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.
The boy and girl, aged 5 and 7, [...]

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Developing Good Doctrine

With some of my recent involvement in another blog discussion around doctrine and theology, I thought this would be a good time for me to post a handout from a doctrine course I wrote for new believers some years ago. I apologize for the format the WP editor has some limitations and I’m too lazy [...]

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