Note from CM: Michael Spencer, one of the world’s greatest baseball fans, died on Opening Day of the MLB season — April 5, 2010. The box score above shows that his beloved Cincinnati Reds lost that night to the St. Louis Cardinals. Win or lose, I can’t think of Michael without smiling in brotherly sympathy with hisContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: March 31, 2017. Opening Day Edition”
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Fridays with Michael Spencer: March 24, 2017
From a 2007 post by Michael Spencer What do you do when God answers your prayers? I am a fairly consistent reader and user of the Book of Psalms in my devotional life and worship leadership. Along the way, I’ve noticed that many of the Psalms are prayer or report episodes of prayer in theContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: March 24, 2017”
Fridays with Michael Spencer: 3/17/17
From a 2009 post by Michael Spencer The following is from a 2008 interview with Richard Foster: What is the discipline that you think we need to be exploring more at this point? Solitude. It is the most foundational of the disciplines of abstinence, the via negativa. The evangelical passion for engagement with the world isContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: 3/17/17”
Fridays with Michael Spencer: March 10, 2017 — On “The Shack”
Note from CM: Boy oh boy, did Michael Spencer ever get in trouble with the Reformed blogosphere back in 2008 when he recommended The Shack, the novel by William P. Young. Well, last week it was released as a movie, and the doctrinaire sorts are having anxiety attacks once more. Tim Challies (who opined about its heresiesContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: March 10, 2017 — On “The Shack””
Fridays with Michael Spencer: Feb. 24, 2017
Sometimes someone else’s sins become the light of seeing our own. Several years ago I was working with a particularly difficult young church staff member. His pattern was to do everything his way, and when negative consequences arrived, to be completely defensive. Insight into his own character wasn’t much of an interest. Finding others guiltyContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: Feb. 24, 2017”
Michael Spencer 101
Note from CM: It occurred to me that some of our newer readers and folks who are passing by might not know that this blog was the brain-child of Michael Spencer, who became known as “The Internet Monk.” As you’ll see below, the site is so named because of his affection for Thomas Merton of Gethsemani AbbeyContinue reading “Michael Spencer 101”
Fridays with Michael Spencer: February 10, 2017
⍎ Yesterday, in Louisville, at the corner of 4th and Walnut, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness,Continue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: February 10, 2017”
Fridays with Michael Spencer: January 27, 2017
From March 2008 A truly prominent, not-post anything blogger has put forward the following theory: Those who use the prefix “post” to describe themselves are claiming to be smarter than those who don’t. Example: A “post-modernist” is saying “I used to be mired in the darkness of modernism, but now, through my superior intellect, IContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: January 27, 2017”
Fridays with Michael Spencer: January 20, 2017
From a classic Michael Spencer post. May, 2008 There are some places that Christians will allow you to stand up and say “the sermon is pop psych” or “I’m not a young earth creationist” or “why do we act like we just invented Christianity this year?” What a gift it is to be able toContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: January 20, 2017”
Fridays with Michael Spencer: Jan 6, 2017
To Do the Best with What We Have from January 2008 * * * Note: The following incident is fictionalized from real experience. I look at my watch. It’s time for a counseling appointment. I clear my desk, bring in the extra chairs and wait. My appointment arrives and the conversation begins. This is aContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: Jan 6, 2017”
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