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The Lectio Letter - Issue #102 - The Weight of Lent, A New Format and Some Books I'm excited about

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The Lectio Letter - Issue #101 - All the books I read in 2025 Reviewed
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back…
 • Liam Byrnes
The Lectio Letter - Issue #100 - The Children’s Talk That Took Me 23 Years to Write
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
The Lectio Letter - Issue #99 - A Haunting Hymnal
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with…
The Lectio Letter - Issue #98 - The Work we Worship that makes us Slaves
“This is why we believe in Jesus Christ—to help us see that we are not what we ought to be and to help us become what we ought to be.”
The Lectio Letter - Issue #97 - Are you free indeed?
“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none.
The Lectio Letter - Issue #96 - Spiritual Formation is a “dedication to reality at all costs”
Each afternoon...I draw aside my curtain to the world and find a soul waiting to speak...They tell me their news and they seek counsel and I have…
The Lectio Letter - Issue #95 - The Revolution will be Catered
I'm writing a shorter Lectio today as I'm immersed in a wonderful family reunion in the Devonshire Countryside.
 • Liam Byrnes
The Lectio Letter - Issue #94 - A Domestic Monastery in a World of Chaos
“I've learnt to become deeply suspicious of advice which leads Christians to create too much distance between our inner life and some kind of outer…
The Lectio Letter - Issue #93 - Chasing Money Changers and Pouring out Perfume this Easter Week
“If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict.
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