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Yesterday we visited the idea of Christian brooding-that is chewing a piece of scripture to the bone. Today we will take a piece of scripture and practice brooding. My hope is that you will try it, and God will move through it.

Let's look at Mark 16:15 for the next couple days. Read this scripture a couple times. You get the face value of this sentence almost immediately. It's like eating ribs: you get most of the meat on the first bite, but there is so much more to enjoy when you chew that rib to the dry bone.

Let's chew on this scripture

Look at this word "he". I know we're all ADD, but look at it. He... is Christ- our God is speaking. Read this verse emphasizing "HE". Christ says...

Then let's pick the word "go". Read the scripture through, speaking it out loud or in your head. Christ says GO!. Let that sink in, saying it over and over. Your God says "go". So then you ask the question "Where am I going?"

We'll continue brooding over this for the rest of the week.

I hate memorizing scripture... better said; I hated memorizing scripture because it felt hollow and routine. It was like eating broccoli that my mother insisted was good for me- so I choked it down. Jesus called the Pharisees "white washed tombs" because their acts appear perfect but they are dead inside, this is how I felt every time I sat there with a note card trying to beat the words through my thick skull.

Enter CHRISTIAN BROODING: I was introduced to BROODING by J.I Packer in his book 'Prayer'.

Brooding is taking a bit of scripture and repeating it over and over in ones mind. Not mindlessly, but trying to juice out every bit of meaning in any given passage.

Follow along this week to learn more about Christian brooding.

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I made a bad mistake today...

I woke up this morning and had a Red Bull that I was given yesterday from a friend. Then after school I met with some people at Tony's coffee and had one of there amazing lattes. The final blow came when I was invited to dinner on campus, where I had 3 glasses of Pepsi.

I just listened to Piper's annual Advent Poem which is beautiful as always.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's approaching 4 o'clock and I better try to get to sleep so that I can teach some Geometry in the morning!