Teach Us To Pray
oleh Denver Institute for Faith & Work
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The Light Has Come Part 2: How to Listen to the Song of Creation
The Light Has Come Part 2: How to Listen to the Song of Creation
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Teach Us To Pray explores the complexity and simplicity of prayer. Each episode pairs a short Scripture meditation with applications for your daily work and life and guided prayer, providing an example of what it means to pray without ceasing in your daily life.
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- The Light Has Come Part 2: How to Listen to the Song of Creation · 14 mnt · Episode 82Summary John 1:3 affirms that all of creation was made through the Word, which means that all of creation reflects the relationality inherent to who God is. As we pray this verse…
- The Light Has Come Part 1: The Towardness of God · 16 mnt · Episode 81Summary What does John mean that the Word was with God, and the Word was God? We can respond to God's turning toward us by turning toward God in prayer. Episode 81 | The Light…
- The Drama of Work Part 4: New Creation · 11 mnt · Episode 80Summary We usually think the future is built on the past, but the Bible insists on it being the other way around. Isaiah 43 is a call for us to long for the future, when God will…
- The Drama of Work Part 3: Redemption · 15 mnt · Episode 79Summary The pivotal act of the Drama of God is Act 3, redemption. This episodes explores some key biblical texts which ground this theme, and also explores how God's work of…
- The Drama of Work Part 2: Fall · 12 mnt · Episode 78Summary Episode 78 | The Drama of Work Part 2: Fall Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to…
- The Drama of Work Part 1: Creation · 14 mnt · Episode 77Summary This episode is the first of four episodes on the Drama of Work. The first act in the drama of salvation is creation, and praying Psalm 8 teaches ingrains in us wonder…
- God's Doxology and Ours: The Christ Hymn Part 4 · 11 mnt · Episode 76Summary The Christ Hymn ends in doxology, in an ascription of glory to Christ. This doxology, offered from the Father and the Spirit, is actually what raises Jesus from the dead…
- God Distilled: The Christ Hymn Part 3 · 12 mnt · Episode 75Summary Like all poetry, the Christ Hymn of Philippians 2 is carried by metaphor and marked by distilled language. What is more, the Christ-Form is a distillation of the eternal…
- Trans-Formed by Christ: The Christ Hymn Part 2 · 11 mnt · Episode 74Summary The first part of the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2 teaches us that God's eternal form, incarnate in Christ, is the form of self-giving love. Through prayer, we can not…
- Death, Soil, and Humility: The Christ Hymn Part 1 · 14 mnt · Episode 73Summary The preamble to the Christ Hymn found in Philippians 2, in which Paul calls us to "do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty conceit," seems to be impossible to…
- Trusting the God Who Knows · 12 mnt · Episode 72Summary The phrase, "Who knows?!", found throughout Scripture, features prominently in Joel 2:12-14. Praying this prayer is an act of childlike dependence, placing our trust in…
- You are Named, You are Known, and that is Enough · 14 mnt · Episode 71Summary John 20:11-18 tells the story of the appearance of the resurrected Christ to Mary Magdalene. At its core, this story is about turning to Christ when we hear him speak our…
- Brokenness: Hers, His, and Mine · 11 mnt · Episode 70Summary In this episode I continue to reflect on the story of Jesus' anointing by an unnamed Woman in Mark 14. This woman's understanding of Jesus is more aesthetic than it is…
- What the Gospel Smells Like: Praying with an Unnamed Woman · 12 mnt · Episode 69Summary Mark 14:3-11 is the story of an unnamed woman who anoints Jesus with costly ointment. If we pray this passage, we are opening our lives to be cruciform, to be akin to…
- Remember, Return, Repent · 14 mnt · Episode 68Summary 2 Kings 22 is the little known story of the prophet Huldah, a faithful woman whose interpretation of the Torah led to a great season of repentance. In this episode I pair…
- God Means to Impose · 13 mnt · Episode 67Summary The conclusion of the book of Genesis, with Joseph's words of forgiveness offered to his brothers, provides a profound parallel with the death of Jesus, and helps us…
- Stairway to Heaven (Pt 2): The Slow Build Epic · 12 mnt · Episode 66Summary In this episode, a joyful exposition of both Genesis 28 and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," I suggest that prayer is akin to Jacob's setting up of a pillar in…
- Stairway to Heaven (Pt 1) · 14 mnt · Episode 66Summary In Genesis 28, Jacob, the "fleeing deceiver," sees a vision of a ladder (or stairway) linking heaven and earth. The surprise of this story, which leads to prayer, is not…
- The Light Has Come: Angels, Linus, and Why I Believe · 15 mnt · Episode 64Summary Luke 2 is the wondrous story of the shepherds hearing of Jesus' birth from the chorus of angels. As we trust in this story we are formed by it; we are "made better,"…
- The Light Has Come: The Darkened Between · 13 mnt · Episode 63Summary Movement 9 of Handel's Messiah combines two texts from Isaiah, one which proclaims that the exile is about to be over, and one that celebrates that the exile is over…
