Teaching | Elijah and the Broom Bush | Silence and Solitude E02
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Why is it so difficult for us to be alone with God? Many believers struggle to practice silence and solitude, and others outright avoid it. This practice often evokes discomfort because it forces us to address the hard emotions we'd often like to ignore, whether it's loneliness, anxiety, or fear. This week, John Mark discusses these issues. Through the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 19, we find that this is a common experience, and we also find a roadmap for how to deal with our emotions with God in a healthy way.
Key scripture passages: 1 Kings 19v1-21
Resources for this practice:
https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/silence-solitude
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as part of the Silence and Solitude Practice. |
| 0:13.0 | Please turn in your Bibles to One Kings Chapter 19. |
| 0:23.5 | That's right in the Old Testament. |
| 0:24.8 | If you're new to the Bible, there's a table of contents |
| 0:27.0 | right at the beginning, One Kings Chapter 19. |
| 0:32.0 | If you missed last week, please circle back and listen to the podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | We continue our series on practicing the way of Jesus and kind of with the new year we kicked |
| 0:41.8 | off our first practice on silence and solitude |
| 0:46.3 | and I really looking forward to more of that tonight and then next week. |
| 0:53.2 | To start off let's have a look at this short clip from the modern day prophet Louis |
| 0:58.4 | K. |
| 1:00.5 | I have this working theory that comedians are the profits of a secular society. |
| 1:07.0 | Usually you hear it's the artist, it's the novelist, it's the novelist, it's the filmmaker, |
| 1:10.0 | and that's all true, but that list is a bit more PC and kind of, you know, vague and |
| 1:15.2 | subtle, whereas a comedian for the most part goes right for the jugular, and they have this |
| 1:19.6 | uncanny like knack to call out America on all of our problems and all of our issues and somehow |
| 1:25.6 | get away with it. |
| 1:26.6 | So Louis was in town Friday night. |
| 1:27.6 | I don't know anybody who's there or if you're hopefully way too Christ-like for that. |
| 1:32.1 | But this is actually a clip from a few years ago |
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