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Art as Spiritual Encounter
As an artist and someone who's been compelled by art, I believe that anything we encounter can spiritually move us. Consider God's...

mknudtson
Oct 6, 20212 min read
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Better Than Imagined
Psalm 47:1-4 (NIV) 1 Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. 2 For the Lord Most High is awesome, the great...

mknudtson
Oct 1, 20212 min read
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What's in a Name?
Someone once mentioned that if you can name it, you can know it. I assume they meant this from a scientific standpoint, or by philosophic...

mknudtson
May 14, 20214 min read
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Time Out - God's in Control
I am a little obsessed with the concept of God's timing. This started with a few answered prayers and a few changes in my life. Then I...

mknudtson
Apr 30, 20214 min read
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Overcoming Shame
As imperfect humans, we theoretically have a lot to be ashamed of. All of the conversations in which we spoke blatant harm, the days we...

mknudtson
Apr 12, 20214 min read
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Standing With the Oppressed
This weekend, I saw a billboard that read: "I don't see color." Then (the audacity!) it credited those words to God. As we drove past it,...

mknudtson
Mar 29, 20213 min read
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Spiritual Check-Up
Blood Clots & Healing We lament the wounded thing-- Scabs that seal over swollen skin And bruises' slow fade, healing Within the body's...

mknudtson
Mar 22, 20213 min read
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Are You Healthy?
1 Samuel 22:1-2 (NIV): 1 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father's household heard about it,...

mknudtson
Mar 15, 20214 min read
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Time for Abandon
It is spring, and my shoes are off at last. It is spring, and the squirrels chase one another in tight circles until they stop to look at...

mknudtson
Mar 8, 20213 min read
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Learn to Love Lineage
As I dig deeper and deeper into the Old Testament, I've come to enjoy something I never anticipated enjoying: lineage. When you're...

mknudtson
Mar 1, 20212 min read
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Surprise!: God's Unexpected Measures, Our Opportunity to Grow
One of the things that I adore about God is His ability to surprise. Really, what do humans know? And yet we form expectations about the...

mknudtson
Feb 15, 20214 min read
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A friendly reminder that our Purpose is to Know God
The past decade of my life has been spent clinging loosely to my passions and sort of acknowledging God. I did not care to understand...

mknudtson
Feb 8, 20213 min read
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Everything in your life leads to THIS.
And I mean everything. Our lives are so complicated, so intricate, and such convoluted networks of lessons and let-downs, opportunities...

mknudtson
Jan 25, 20214 min read
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What Owns You?
I've had a chance to think about what it means to surrender everything to God during these past few weeks. What such a thing actually...

mknudtson
Jan 6, 20215 min read
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Obedient Peace
I've spent a good amount of time pondering over peace. As a poet, much of my poetry questions it, chases after it, triumphs when it's...

mknudtson
Dec 30, 20203 min read
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Temporary President, Eternal King
Last night, as I watched a friend holler at the TV, utterly agitated by the flashes of blue and red coloring the map of the United...

mknudtson
Nov 4, 20203 min read
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Eating Suffers Where Community Ends
During the pandemic, one of the activities missed by many is the act of sharing a meal together. A lot of took for granted visiting...

mknudtson
Oct 14, 20203 min read
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Ministering Like a Gardener
Have you ever had a garden before? If not a full garden, perhaps a little potted plant that you kept inside next to a window. I myself...

mknudtson
Oct 7, 20205 min read
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Balance = Rest
It can take very little to send a scale tipping. Sometimes all it truly takes is one feather, one grain of rice, one measly ounce to...

mknudtson
Sep 23, 20203 min read
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Fulfilled
There are times when life seems like an arbitrary quest. We scramble to find someone that makes us feel fulfilled, for a philosophy or a...

mknudtson
Sep 9, 20203 min read
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