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By Denis, Reading the Word

Behold, I am doing a new thing

By Denis Haack
A sermon Denis preached about how the world is broken, and we are fallen, but God is doing a new, life-giving thing and has given us credible reasons for hope.

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By Denis, Faithful in the Ordinary

How should we tip when no one sees?

By Denis Haack
Sometimes our true selves are best revealed when there are no onlookers. No obvious onlookers, anyway.

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Books Film, By Denis

Books Noted: The Free World (Louis Menand, 2021) and Paul: A Biography (N. T. Wright, 2018)

By Denis Haack
Two books, a compendium of short pieces on the art and ideas that propelled America to prominence between 1945-1968, and a biography of St. Paul.

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Books Film, By Denis

Fiction Briefly Noted: Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel, 2014) & “Matryona’s House” (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1971)

By Denis Haack
A dystopian science fiction novel and a Russian short story help us focus on what matters most.

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Books Film, By Denis

Books Noted: Saving Us (Katherine Hayhoe, 2021) and Calvinism for a Secular Age (Jessica Joustra & Robert Joustra, 2022)

By Denis Haack
Two helpful books. One helps us talk Christianly about climate change and the other helps us think Christianly about all of life and culture.

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Books Film, By Margie

Place Trilogy available

By Margie Haack
Margie’s new “Place Trilogy” of books is now available: The Exact Place, No Place, This Place. She has recorded a reading for your listening pleasure.

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By Margie, Faithful in the Ordinary

Stop looking into the pit

By Margie Haack
Stop reading, listening, and watching news that makes you angry and depressed. Find stories filled with compassion, love and humor.

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By Denis, Faithful in the Ordinary

Thinking about social media

By Denis Haack
Social media will not go away, so we need to revisit the question of how to be faithful in our use of it.

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Books Film, By Denis

Book review: Lifting the Veil: Imagination & the Kingdom of God (Malcolm Guite, 2021)

By Denis Haack
In Lifting the Veil, poet, priest, and scholar Malcolm Guite restores the imagination to its rightful place in Christian faithfulness.

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By Denis, Faithful in the Ordinary

Maturing is a process

By Denis Haack
None of us are equally proficient in demonstrating every fruit of the Spirit—and that reveals where we need to grow as followers of Jesus.

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Books Film, By Denis

Book review: How to be Perfec t: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question (Michael Schur, 2022)

By Denis Haack
Most books on moral philosophy are dense and dry, requiring us to slog through turgid prose and convoluted logic. Except this one.

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By guest authors, Faithful in the Ordinary

Personal Reflection: Windows

By Scott Schuleit
In poetic prose, Scott Schuleit reflects on how windows shape our vision, deepening it and occasionally distracting it.

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Books Film, By Margie

Failure to Impress

By Margie Haack
Listen as Margie reads about the first meal she cooks for Denis. An excerpt from No Place.

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By Denis, Faithful in the Ordinary

How I see, displayed on the wall of my office

By Denis Haack
Two paintings and a dried palm frond remind me that there is more to reality than I can imagine. And in that, I find hope.

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By Denis, Reading the Word

The polarized riches of wisdom

By Denis Haack
Clarity & simplicity as well as ambiguity & mystery is essential to the nature of wisdom. Most of us are comfortable with one or the other, but we need to live contentedly in both.

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Books Film, By Denis

Movie: (TV actually) Human dignity depicted in Unforgotten (PBS, Masterpiece Theater)

By Denis Haack
A detective series on Masterpiece Theater (PBS) that emphasizes mercy and human dignity.

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Books Film, By Denis

Book review: He Saw That It Was Good: Reimagining your creative life to repair a broken world (Sho Baraka, 2021)

By Denis Haack
In this lively exploration of following Jesus with creative faithfulness, a recording artist and activist challenges readers to love God in both truth and beauty.

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By Denis, Discerning the World

Article worth discussing: “How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter” (Timothy Keller)

By Denis Haack
Tim Keller lists six things necessary if the followers of Jesus are to make the gospel attractive and plausible in our increasingly post-Christian world.

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By Denis, Discerning the World

Article worth discussing: “How America Fractured into Four Parts” (George Packer, The Atlantic)

By Denis Haack
Journalist George Packer says there are four competing stories being told about America by Americans. It’s not a good situation. What story do we tell?

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Books Film, By Denis

Book review: Piranesi (Susanna Clarke, 2020)

By Denis Haack
Piranesi is a novel that tells a delightfully imaginative story and invites us to ask questions that need serious reflection.

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Books Noted: The Free World (Louis Menand, 2021) and Paul: A Biography (N. T. Wright, 2018)
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