By Way of Reminder
sermons, big questions, and marginalia from Brent Levy

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Mar
21
How I Work: Look Up Bible Passages with These Shortcuts

How I Work: Look Up Bible Passages with These Shortcuts

I’m always looking for ways to make my workflows easier and more efficient. As a pastor, I work a
2 min read
Mar
17
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Holding It All Together

Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Holding It All Together

In our vulnerability, we meet God in Christ who weeps, isn't above our grief, but carries it through the cross, redeeming us. Like a Mother Hen, God gathers us beneath her wings with steadfast love.
11 min read
Mar
10
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Planning and Deadlines

Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Planning and Deadlines

This is what Jesus is asking. This is what it looks like to fast from planning and deadlines. Jesus is asking us to let go, to take a beat, to open our hands filled with chess pieces, and to repent from our need to plan our way to our desired end because God has something better in store.
12 min read
Mar
03
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Scarcity Anxiety

Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Scarcity Anxiety

The only reason I jumped into the pool as a kid was because my Aunt Laura was there with arms open, ready to catch me.
12 min read
Feb
25
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Multitasking and Inattention

Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Multitasking and Inattention

If you've ever scrolled Instagram at a stoplight, played Royal Match in class, browsed the headlines at the dinner table, checked your email during a Zoom call, or made your grocery list during a sermon, this is for you.
13 min read
Feb
18
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Consumption

Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Consumption

Do we each really need our own lawnmowers?
12 min read
Feb
11
Wonder

Wonder

“Earth’s crammed with heaven,” the poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wrote. “And every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes…”
11 min read
Dec
11
From Generation to Generation: We Can Choose a Better Way

From Generation to Generation: We Can Choose a Better Way

But think of those moments in your own life that take your breath away. That restore your faith in humanity, however briefly—as if it’s nothing… as if it isn’t everything.
10 min read
Sep
04
Ask Us Anything 4: What the hell?

Ask Us Anything 4: What the hell?

It becomes clear that heaven has everything to do with moving toward God’s desire for wholeness and the restoration of all creation, and hell has everything to do with resisting that.
12 min read
Aug
28
Ask Us Anything 3: What does the Bible say about LGBTQ+?

Ask Us Anything 3: What does the Bible say about LGBTQ+?

The truth I see in the Bible’s big picture that God is love and that out of love, Jesus lives, dies, and lives again with arms outstretched in an expansive embrace of all, is part of what leads me to a place of inclusion.
12 min read