John Eldredge

Randsomed Heart Ministries

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The Rush to New

Written by John Eldredge Monday, 12 March 2012 00:00

Friends, a happy March to you.

As I was praying this morning about what we all needed in this month’s letter, Jesus replied with a question: What is the last thing I said to you?

It wasn’t meant to imply, Write about what I said to you this morning. Rather, Jesus was raising the issue of staying with him, staying with the words he gives to us. As in, Do you even remember the last thing I said to you? Let me explain why.

Every time I fire up my phone or computer, there’s another notice: “Software updates available” (there’s a new one staring at me even now). And so I go through the rigmarole of updating this or that aspect of my system, or of some sweet little...

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Thoughts and Questions for a New Year

Written by John Eldredge Saturday, 21 January 2012 21:28

 

Dearest Friends,
 
Well…here it is. The new year.
 
We finally got the last of the Christmas decorations packed up and put away. I’m pretty much done with egg nog for awhile. And I’ll be just fine if I don’t hear “Rockin around the Christmas Tree” for another ten months. Please.
This is that time of year we start thinking about making changes...

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Advent

Written by John Eldredge Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:00

 

Dearest Friends,
 
This month we celebrate Advent, and Christmas, and all the wonderful things that come with it.  Having this in mind, I wanted to share something a friend of mine wrote to me in a very late-night email. He is a Catholic layman, living in Eastern Europe. I had sent him a copy of Beautiful Outlaw, and it is in that context he wrote me during the wee hours:
 

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Beautiful Outlaw

Written by John Eldredge Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:00

Friends,

In my monthly letters this year we’ve been exploring the personality of Jesus – his beautiful, scandalous, utterly compelling personality. We’ve looked at his…

Humanity – Jesus wasn’t faking it in Gethsemane. He wasn’t Einstein dropping in to take the first grade math quiz. The Incarnation was real; his was the most human face of all.

Playfulness – like when he “caught&rdquo...

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The Son of God Becomes a Son of Man

Written by John Eldredge Wednesday, 31 August 2011 00:00

Dearest Friends, Compadres,

Allow me to continue to talk about Jesus. I mean, once we get going on this man, its hard to stop. We’ve glimpsed his playfulness, cunning, generosity and more. About Chapter Eleven in the new book, Beautiful Outlaw, I carry on with this thought:

We’ve been running to and fro in the Gospels, picking up one treasure, then dashing off to find another, like children on Christmas morning. Now I want to look at a moment...

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    Living spiritually is enhanced and enriched through the Psalms and their frequent affirmations of and appeals to God’s covenant loyalty. Many of these writings, however, may shock us with their realism. In the midst of our sometimes automatic pilot spirituality,...

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    O Christ, my life, possess me utterly.
    Take me and make a little Christ of me.
    If I am anything but thy father's son,
    'Tis something not yet from the darkness won.
    Oh, give me light to live with open eyes.
    Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.
    Give me thy spirit to haunt the Father with my cries.

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