The Lectio Letter

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…

Nov 27

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October 2025

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.”

Oct 29

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September 2025

The Lectio Letter - Issue #97 - Are you free indeed?

“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none.

Sep 22

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August 2025

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…

Aug 22

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June 2025

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.

Jun 20 • 

Liam Byrnes

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May 2025

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…

May 23

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April 2025

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.

Apr 16

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March 2025

The Lectio Letter - Issue #92 - 40 Pieces of Advice at 40

“Advice; It’s more fun to give than receive “

Mar 25

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The Lectio Letter - Issue #91 - What's Your Calling? | 3 Pieces of Advice

“But Calling, as I see it, is the way God has called you to bear His Image in the World.

Mar 3

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January 2025

The Lectio Letter - Issue #90 - All the books I read in 2024 Reviewed

"Spiritual reading, for most of us, requires either the recovery or acquisition of skills not in current repute: leisurely, repetitive, reflective…

Jan 23 • 

Liam Byrnes

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December 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #89 - Advent's Good News: Your life is too small and You Can't Work Hard Enough

Advent is the season that, when properly understood, does not flinch from the darkness that stalks us all in this world.

Dec 20, 2024

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November 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #88 - 3 Reasons I (often) don't call myself a missionary

"Unfortunately, evangelicals in mission still tend to proceed as though their major problems are methodological.

Nov 22, 2024

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