In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using 1 Peter 1:18-21, a Holy Week reading from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Use the audio player below, or right click here to download the file.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Mark 14:22-25, a Holy Week reading from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Use the audio player below, or right click here to download the file.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Mark 12:9-11, a Holy Week reading from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Use the audio player below, or right click here to download the file.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using 2 Corinthians 1:20-22, a Holy Week reading from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Use the audio player below, or right click here to download the file.

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This week we’re re-running an early series from back at the beginning of this podcast in 2015: a special series for Holy Week.

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Mark 11:22-25, a Holy Week reading from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Use the audio player below, or right click here to download the file.

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We’ll have a special Holy Week series next week, so today’s reading is the last of our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Calling, and today we’re reading John 12:31-33.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Calling, and today we’re reading John 12:28-30.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Calling, and today we’re reading John 12:27-28.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Calling, and today we’re reading John 12:26.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Calling, and today we’re reading John 12:24-25.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Belief, and today we’re reading John 3:20-21.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Belief, and today we’re reading John 3:19.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Belief, and today we’re reading John 3:18.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Belief, and today we’re reading John 3:16-17.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Belief, and today we’re reading John 3:14-15.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Cleansing, and today we’re reading John 2:21-22.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Cleansing, and today we’re reading John 2:18-20.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Cleansing, and today we’re reading John 2:16-17.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Cleansing, and today we’re reading John 2:15.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Cleansing, and today we’re reading John 2:13-14.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Expectations, and today we’re reading Mark 8:38.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Expectations, and today we’re reading Mark 8:35-37.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Expectations, and today we’re reading Mark 8:34.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Expectations, and today we’re reading Mark 8:32-33.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Expectations, and today we’re reading Mark 8:31-32.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Wilderness, and today we’re reading Mark 1:14-15.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Wilderness, and today we’re reading Mark 1:13.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Wilderness, and today we’re reading Mark 1:12.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Wilderness, and today we’re reading Mark 1:11.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. This week’s theme is Wilderness, and today we’re reading Mark 1:9-10.

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In this episode, we’re we’re concluding our Ash Wednesday reading with Matthew 6:19-21.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our Ash Wednesday reading with Matthew 6:16-17.

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In this episode, we’re beginning our new Lenten series using gospel readings from the revised common lectionary. Today is Ash Wednesday, and we’re reading Matthew 6:1-2.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Gaining Wisdom using selections from A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics by Carmen Acevedo Butcher. Today we’re using a selection from Hadewijch’s Letters.

God will teach you the true ways of agape Love. Your part is to be vigilant and discerning in all you do. Consider your journey. Remember who you are. Be firm in your faith.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using a blessing by Robert van de Weyer.

Lord of my heart,
Give me vision to inspire me,
That working or resting,
I may always think of You.
Lord of my heart,
Give me light to guide me, that,
At home or abroad,
I may always walk in Your way.

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In this episode, we’re concluding our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading November stanza 1 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Thou art of this world, Christ. Thou know’st it all;
Thou know’st our evens, our morns, our red and gray;
How moons, and hearts, and seasons rise and fall;
How we grow weary plodding on the way;
Of future joy how present pain bereaves,
Rounding us with a dark of mere decay,
Tossed with a drift of summer-fallen leaves.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading October stanza 27 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Take from me leisure, all familiar places;
Take all the lovely things of earth and air
Take from me books; take all my precious faces;
Take words melodious, and their songful linking;
Take scents, and sounds, and all thy outsides fair;
Draw nearer, taking, and, to my sober thinking,
Thou bring’st them nearer all, and ready to my prayer.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading April stanza 13 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Make me all patience and all diligence;
Patience, that thou mayst have thy time with me;
Diligence, that I waste not thy expense
In sending out to bring me home to thee.
What though thy work in me transcends my sense–
Too fine, too high, for me to understand–
I hope entirely. On, Lord, with thy labour grand.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading February stanza 29 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Gather my broken fragments to a whole,
As these four quarters make a shining day.
Into thy basket, for my golden bowl,
Take up the things that I have cast away
In vice or indolence or unwise play.
Let mine be a merry, all-receiving heart,
But make it a whole, with light in every part.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading January stanza 5 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Thy fishes breathe but where thy waters roll;
Thy birds fly but within thy airy sea;
My soul breathes only in thy infinite soul;
I breathe, I think, I love, I live but thee.
Oh breathe, oh think,–O Love, live into me;
Unworthy is my life till all divine,
Till thou see in me only what is thine.

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading a selection from “O Lord How Happy.”

… I do not fear the wilderness
Where thou hast been before;
Nay rather will I daily press
After thee, near thee, more!
Thou art my food; on thee I lean,
Thou makest my heart sing;
And to thy heavenly pastures green
All thy dear flock dost bring. ….

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading a selection from “A Broken Prayer.”

… Make me a broad strong river coming down
With shouts from its high hills, whose rocky hearts
Throb forth the joy of their stability
In watery pulses from their inmost deeps;
And I shall be a vein upon thy world,
Circling perpetual from the parent deep. …

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading a selection from “Written on a Stormy Night.”

… Again the loud boughs thunder! and the din
Licks up my footfall from the hissing earth!
But I have found a mighty peace within,
And I have risen into a home of mirth!
Wildly I climb above the shaking spires,
Above the sobbing clouds, up through the steady fires!

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading a selection from “Love Is Strength.”

… Little ones, no ill can chance;
Fear ye not, but sing and dance;
Though the high-heaved heaven should fall
God is plenty for us all:
God is Love and Strength!

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In this episode, we’re beginning a new series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald, a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Today we’re reading “A Baby-Sermon.”

The lightning and thunder
They go and they come:
But the stars and the stillness
Are always at home.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:13-14.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:12.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:11.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:9-10.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:8-9.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:7.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:6.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:4-5.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Isaiah 58:2-3.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re starting a new series on Isaiah 58.  Today we’re using Isaiah 58:1-2.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re concluding our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

Island-precepts, I might call them…. Simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life. Balance of physical, intellectual, and spiritual life. Work without pressure. Space for significance and beauty.  Time for solitude and sharing. Closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life…

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms….A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky.  A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side.  A candle flowers in the space of night.  Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space….

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.  We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb.  We are afraid it will never return….One must accept the security of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

Perhaps both men and women…may hunger…for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind, and spirit–qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.  It is growth along these lines that will make us whole….

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Growth and Space.

One tries to cure the signs of growth, to exorcise them, as if they were devils, when really they might be angels of annunciation…of a new stage in living when…one might be free to fulfill the neglected side of one’s self.  One might be free for growth of mind, heart, and talent; free at last for spiritual growth…

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle.  We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth….This is only a beginning.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

This is an end toward which we could strive–to be the still axis within the revolving wheel of relationships, obligations and activities.  Solitude alone is not the answer to this; it is only a step toward it…

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

We are aware of our hunger and needs, but still ignorant of what will satisfy them…Instead of stilling the center, the axis of the wheel, we add more centrifugal activities to our lives–which tend to throw us off balance.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Solitude and Centerdness.

…[W]e are hungry, and not knowing what we are hungry for, we fill up the void with endless distractions, always at hand–unnecessary errands, compulsive duties, social niceties.  And for the most part, to little purpose.  Suddenly the spring is dry; the well is empty.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Harmony and Balance.

[The problem] is more basically: how to remain whole in the midst of the distractions of life; how to remain balanced, no matter what centrifugal forces tend to pull one off center; how to remain strong, no matter what shocks come in at the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Harmony and Balance.

How much we need, and how arduous of attainment is that steadiness preached in all rules for holy living.  How desirable and how distant is the ideal of the contemplative, artist or saint–the inner inviolable core, the single eye.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Harmony and Balance.

The pattern of our lives is essentially circular.  We must be open to all points of the compass…stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider’s web to each breeze that blows…. How difficult…to achieve a balance in the midst of these contradictory tensions, and yet how necessary for the proper functioning of our lives.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Harmony and Balance.

I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily–like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity….This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity…It leads not to unification but to fragmentation.  It does not bring grace; it destroys the soul.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re beginning 2017 with a new series on Wise Lessons for Graceful Living using selections from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea.  This week’s theme is Harmony and Balance.

I want…to live “in grace” as much of the time as possible…an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated to outward harmony…a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

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Today’s reading is the last of our series on Prince of Peace, and we’re reading Isaiah 26:11, 15.

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Today’s reading is part of our series on Prince of Peace, and we’re reading Colossians 3:15.

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Today’s reading is part of our series on Prince of Peace, and we’re reading John 14:27.

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Today’s reading is part of our series on Prince of Peace, and we’re reading 2 Thessalonians 3:16.

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Today’s reading is part of our series on Prince of Peace, and we’re reading John 16:33.

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Today’s reading is part of our series on Prince of Peace, and we’re reading 1 Peter 3:10-11.

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During these 12 days of the Christmas season, we’re celebrating the Incarnation with a new series on Prince of Peace. Today we’re beginning by reading Isaiah 9:6.

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Merry Christmas! This episode of the guided lectio divina podcast is the last in our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath.

The theme for Christmas Day is Light, and in this episode we’re using John 1:9-10.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. The theme for Christmas Eve is Light, and in this episode we’re using John 8:12.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Peace, and in this episode we’re using John 14:27.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Joy, and in this episode we’re using Luke 1:46-48.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Joy, and in this episode we’re using Psalm 16:11.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Joy, and in this episode we’re using 1 Peter 1:8-9.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Joy, and in this episode we’re using Isaiah 35:10.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Joy, and in this episode we’re using Luke 2:10-11.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Love, and in this episode we’re using Deuteronomy 7:9.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Love, and in this episode we’re using Zephaniah 3:17.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Love, and in this episode we’re using Romans 8:38-39.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Love, and in this episode we’re using John 15:9.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Love, and in this episode we’re using Psalm 103:8.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Hope, and in this episode we’re using Psalm 31:24.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Hope, and in this episode we’re using Isaiah 40:31.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Hope, and in this episode we’re using Jeremiah 29:10-11.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Hope, and in this episode we’re using Romans 15:13.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re starting a new Advent series using the themes of the advent wreath. This week’s theme is Hope, and in this episode we’re using Romans 15:12.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re concluding our series on Giving Thanks using Psalm 100:3-4.

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Happy Thanksgiving! In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using 1 Thessalonians 5:14-18.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Psalm 28:6-7.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using 1 Timothy 4:4-5.

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In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using Jonah 2:7-9.

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