The Dark Night of the Soul

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Part 8 from the series, "Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship", as part of Practicing the Way. At some point in the spiritual journey, we come to what St. John of the Cross called “the dark night of the soul” – a season in which our experience of God feels more like absence than presence. God intentionally withdraws the felt-sense of his presence to do a work of purgation and preparation for a deeper intimacy. But few of us have a category of this, so we misdiagnosis the phenomena and often run aground in our journey. In part one of a two-part teaching on the dark night, we explore Jesus’ invitations to us in seasons of darkness and dryness.

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0:00.0	And please turn to your Bibles to Psalm 42.
0:03.6	Psalm 42, as we continue our spring practice
0:08.4	on naming your stage of apprenticeship.
0:11.0	Morris was here. I was out of town last week,
0:14.0	but our podcast was amazing. Hope that was a good time with Morris.
0:18.5	What happened to Summer, by the way?
0:21.3	Were we ready to pray for that or something?
0:25.3	I love that some of you are in shorts and t-shirts. I just love the faith
0:29.0	that you put on display. You want it to be warm.
0:32.7	It's just not, but Psalm 42.
0:40.6	To begin, let's read this together.
0:47.5	As the deer pants for streams of water,
0:54.2	so my soul pants for you, my God.
0:59.7	My soul thirsts for God.
1:02.8	For the living God, when can I go and meet with God?
1:06.6	My tears have been my food day and night.
1:11.2	While people say to me all day long, where is your God?
1:16.0	These things I remember as I pour out my soul.
1:20.3	How I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the mighty one
1:24.2	with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng?
1:29.2	Why my soul are you downcast?
1:34.1	Why so disturbed within me?
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