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Teach Us To Pray explores the complexity and simplicity of prayer. Each episode pairs a short Scripture meditation with applications for your daily work and life and guided prayer, providing an example of what it means to pray without ceasing in your daily life.
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- 1 weeks ago14 min
The Drama of Work Part 3: Redemption
Summary The pivotal act of the Drama of God is Act 3, redemption. This episodes explores some key biblical texts which ground this theme, and also explores how God's work of redemption is both finished and ongoing. Episode 79 | The Drama of Work Part 3: Redemption Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org with your feedback. Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us. Resources Download our free God Loves Work Vol. 3 Devotional "Disarm" by the Smashing Pumpkins "Dumb and Dumber" "Office Space" "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley
- 3 weeks ago12 min
The Drama of Work Part 2: Fall
Summary Episode 78 | The Drama of Work Part 2: Fall Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org with your feedback. Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us. Resources Vienna Philharmonic – Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61/4: Scherzo Download theLabor Day devotional God Loves Work Vol 3: The Drama of Work My thanks to Andrew Pratt and Anna Duncan at La Cañada Presbyterian Church for singing "The Blessing"
- Aug 17, 202614 min
The Drama of Work Part 1: Creation
Summary This episode is the first of four episodes on the Drama of Work. The first act in the drama of salvation is creation, and praying Psalm 8 teaches ingrains in us wonder and dependence on the Creator. Episode 77 | The Drama of Work Part 1: Creation Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org with your feedback. Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us. Resources "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles "So Will I" by Hillsong United
- Jun 22, 202610 min
God's Doxology and Ours: The Christ Hymn Part 4
Summary The Christ Hymn ends in doxology, in an ascription of glory to Christ. This doxology, offered from the Father and the Spirit, is actually what raises Jesus from the dead. What can we do but join in this unending hymn? Episode 76 | God's Doxology and Ours: The Christ Hymn Part 4 Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org with your feedback. Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us. Resources Teach us to Pray will return on August 17th! In the meantime, listen to The Faith & Work Podcast The Doxology by Cameron Davidson and Carol Osborne The Doxology by The Spirituals
- Jun 8, 202611 min
God Distilled: The Christ Hymn Part 3
Summary Like all poetry, the Christ Hymn of Philippians 2 is carried by metaphor and marked by distilled language. What is more, the Christ-Form is a distillation of the eternal language of love between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The poetry of this hymn leads only and always to prayer. Episode 75 | God Distilled: The Christ Hymn Part 3 Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org with your feedback. Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us. Resources "Death by a Thousand Cuts" by Taylor Swift "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" by Hymnology
- May 25, 202611 min
Trans-Formed by Christ: The Christ Hymn Part 2
Summary The first part of the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2 teaches us that God's eternal form, incarnate in Christ, is the form of self-giving love. Through prayer, we can not only see this form, but live it out as God trans-forms us. Episode 74 | Trans-Formed by Christ: The Christ Hymn Part 2 Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org with your feedback. Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us. Resources "The Mystery" by Van Morrison
- May 13, 202613 min
Death, Soil, and Humility
Summary The preamble to the Christ Hymn found in Philippians 2, in which Paul calls us to "do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty conceit," seems to be impossible to actually live out. But, what if every little act of selflessness, every little death of self, becomes the soil of humility, the queen of the virtues? What if we invite the Master Gardener to tend the soil of our lives? Episode 73 | Death, Soil, and Humility Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org with your feedback. Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us. Resources TS Eliot, East Coker Gungor, "Beautiful Things"
- Apr 28, 202612 min
Trusting the God Who Knows
Summary The phrase, "Who knows?!", found throughout Scripture, features prominently in Joel 2:12-14. Praying this prayer is an act of childlike dependence, placing our trust in the God Who knows. Episode 72 | Trusting the God Who Knows Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org with your feedback. Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us. Resources Crafting a Rule of Life "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," music by Albert Hague "Place on the Wall," performed my MILCK, words and music by Mark Crawford, from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Girl Climber Learn more about Lectio Devina HERE
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Teach Us To Pray explores the complexity and simplicity of prayer. Each episode pairs a short Scripture meditation with applications for your daily work and life and guided prayer, providing an example of what it means to pray without ceasing in your daily life.
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