Category Archives: Spirituality

What Am I Doing?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Continuing to learn from Hauerwas and Pinches: One of the difficulties of taking up any significant way of life is that we never entirely understand what we are doing. Commitments are asked of us, but we are in no position … Continue reading →

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Happy Christians?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

I’m currently reading Christians Among the Virtues by Stanley Hauerwas & Charles Pinches. They say: “Christians cannot overlook the profound challenge that the gospel is meant to confront, if not destroy: our presumptions about what will make us happy in … Continue reading →

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Unity & Harmony

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

On page 30 of Renovation of the Heart, Dallas Willard says, When successful, spiritual formation (or, really, reformation) unites the divided heart and life of the individual. That person can then bring remarkable harmony into the groups where he or … Continue reading →

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Another, older, NCLB

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Charles Taylor (in A Secular Age) considers the depth of Reform in the middle ages to be much greater than the line from Wycliffe, to Huss, to Luther and beyond, connecting it to the rise of the modern preoccupation with … Continue reading →

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Joining the Big Story

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

One of the books I’m reading now (having a short attention span, I usually read several at a time) is Dave Schmelzer’s Not the Religious Type: Confessions of a Turncoat Atheist. On p. 105 Schmelzer says, This [he’s been talking … Continue reading →

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Vision for the Christian Life

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Where do you go to find your vision for the Christian life, where do you look to find your picture of what it looks like to live as a follower of Jesus? If Christianity were only – or primarily – … Continue reading →

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Decision Making by Age

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

When you’re a kid, Mom & Dad make decisions for you. They usually do ok. When you’re a teenager, Mom & Dad make too many decisions for you. They’re usually wrong. If you could make your own decisions you’d do … Continue reading →

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Broken Heart

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

My heart is broken for the current generation of young people. This Sunday I get to speak at our community’s Baccalaureate service and will have an opportunity to share my heart with them. Since my son is graduating this year … Continue reading →

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Stepping Out

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

I’ve taught on spiritual gifts many times over the past twenty years. One of the tools commonly used in such teaching is what we call a “Spiritual Gifts Inventory.”(Here’s a sample of an online inventory.) The theory is that by … Continue reading →

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Thinking About Lent

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

The forty days of Lent are based on the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness. Often when we think of those forty days (described, for example, in Matthew 4), we think of the fasting and the temptations. Christians have … Continue reading →

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