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Podcast Ep 17: Family Traits, Social Skills, and Belonging

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Podcast Ep 16: Habits, Rhythms, and Discipleship

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten Helpful Links: Click here to sign up for a discipleship group today! Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren

Podcast Ep 15: Good News, Pruning, and the Gospel of Grace

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten Recommendations for Further Reading: The Prodigal God by Tim Kell Deeper by Dane Ortlund

Podcast Episode 14: Envy, God's Goodness, and Ancient Wars

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Podcast Episode 13: How God Sees, How We See (+ Summer Reading Groups)

June 3, 2023 The Oaks Parish Podcast with Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Podcast Episode 12: Trusting Faith or Crippling Fear

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck and Martha Van Houten Notes: Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation “Why should I worry about losing a bodily life that I must inevitably lose anyway, as long as I possess a spiritual life and identity that cannot be lost against my desire? Why should I fear to cease to be what I am not when I have already become something of what I am? Why should I go to great labor to possess satisfactions that cannot last an hour, and which bring misery after them, when I already own God in His eternity of joy? It is the easiest thing in the world to possess this life and this joy; all you have to do is believe and love; and yet people waste their whole lives in appalling labor and difficulty and sacrifice to get things that make real life impossible. This is one of the chief contradictions that sin has brought into our souls: we have to do violence to ourselves to keep from laboring uselessly for what is bitter and without joy, and we have to compel ourselves to take what is easy and full of happiness as though it were against our interests, because for us the line of least resistance leads in the way of greatest hardship and sometimes for us to do what is, in itself, most easy, can be the hardest thing in the world.”

Podcast Episode 11: Confession, False Gods, and Becoming Learners

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Easter Sunday: Reflections for Lent

During Holy Week, we invite you to listen to this daily reflection, responding to the Scripture and poetry in personal meditation and prayer. Poetic Reflection: "Christ at Emmaus" © Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Drawn to the Light (2006) Music © Courtland Urbano // Special thanks to Courtland Urbano, for his contribution of music to these daily reflections. All Scripture is from the New Revised Standard Version © National Council of Churches (1989 ) All prayers are from the Book of Common Prayer © Public Domain (2019)

Holy Saturday: Reflections for Lent

During Holy Week, we invite you to listen to this daily reflection, responding to the Scripture and poetry in personal meditation and prayer. Poetic Reflection: "Buried" © Josh Hill (2023) Music © Courtland Urbano // Special thanks to Courtland Urbano, for his contribution of music to these daily reflections. All Scripture is from the New Revised Standard Version © National Council of Churches (1989 ) All prayers are from the Book of Common Prayer © Public Domain (2019)

Good Friday: Reflections for Lent

During Holy Week, we invite you to listen to this daily reflection, responding to the Scripture and poetry in personal meditation and prayer. Poetic Reflection: "Forsaken" © Andrew Shaughnessy (2023) Music © Courtland Urbano // Special thanks to Courtland Urbano, for his contribution of music to these daily reflections. All Scripture is from the New Revised Standard Version © National Council of Churches (1989 ) All prayers are from the Book of Common Prayer © Public Domain (2019)

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