LENT 5: Study (mini-episode)

LENT 5: Study (mini-episode)

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March 24, 2026 · 3 min · Season 5 · Episode 17

About this episode

This episode discusses the spiritual practice of study and its historical significance in the church.

This week's spiritual practice is the practice of study. When I read Richard Foster's book Celebration of Discipline 25 years ago for the first time I almost skipped this chapter. It seemed like all we ever did as Church people was study. There was Sunday School and Sermons and Bible Studies and personal Bible reading. Every day, every week...we would open the Bible and study to understand the Bible. We believed that if we changed our minds with knowledge our whole lives would be changed by the knowledge itself. If we just knew what God wanted, then at least there was a chance we could do it. This was the "knowledge is power" era. Culturally in post civil rights era America we believed that education was the silver bullet, the one thing that could make society work. If everyone was smarter and knew more stuff, the world would be a better place. The church had Bible verses that we would trot out too: Proverbs 1:7 — "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." Hosea 4:6 — "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." John 8:32 — "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Colossians 1:10 — Bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God…

Topics covered

  • spiritual practice
  • study
  • knowledge
  • Bible
  • education
  • church

Keywords

  • study
  • spiritual practice
  • Bible knowledge
  • education
  • church history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Celebration of Discipline, Proverbs 1:7, Hosea 4:6, John 8:32, Colossians 1:10

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