Teach Us To Pray

John 1:3 affirms that all of creation was made through the Word, which means that all of creation reflects the relationality inherent to who God is. As we pray this verse we will encounter the Triune God more and more within the created world.

Episode 82 | The Light Has Come Part 2: How to Listen to the Song of Creation

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• "All Creatures of Our God and King" by David Crowder Band
• Pantheism by Yoda
• "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

What does John mean that the Word was with God, and the Word was God? We can respond to God's turning toward us by turning toward God in prayer.

Episode 81 | The Light Has Come Part 1: The Towardness of God

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• Rublev's Icon of the Trinity In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel covered by Boyce Avenue

We usually think the future is built on the past, but the Bible insists on it being the other way around. Isaiah 43 is a call for us to long for the future, when God will make all things new. We can only exercise this longing in prayer.

Episode 80 | The Drama of Work Part 4: New Creation

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• Download our free God Loves Work Vol. 3 Devotional
• "Back to the Future" Theme Song, written by Alan Silvestri
• "Getaway Car" by Taylor Swift

The pivotal act of the Drama of God is Act 3, redemption. This episodes explores some key biblical texts which ground this theme, and also explores how God's work of redemption is both finished and ongoing.

Episode 79 | The Drama of Work Part 3: Redemption

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• Download our free God Loves Work Vol. 3 Devotional
• "Disarm" by the Smashing Pumpkins
• "Dumb and Dumber"
• "Office Space"
• "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry
• "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley

Episode 78 | The Drama of Work Part 2: Fall

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• Vienna Philharmonic – Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61/4: Scherzo
• Download theLabor Day devotional God Loves Work Vol 3: The Drama of Work
• My thanks to Andrew Pratt and Anna Duncan at La Cañada Presbyterian Church for singing "The Blessing"

This episode is the first of four episodes on the Drama of Work. The first act in the drama of salvation is creation, and praying Psalm 8 teaches ingrains in us wonder and dependence on the Creator.

Episode 77 | The Drama of Work Part 1: Creation

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles
• "So Will I" by Hillsong United

The Christ Hymn ends in doxology, in an ascription of glory to Christ. This doxology, offered from the Father and the Spirit, is actually what raises Jesus from the dead. What can we do but join in this unending hymn?

Episode 76 | God's Doxology and Ours: The Christ Hymn Part 4

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• Teach us to Pray will return on August 17th! In the meantime, listen to The Faith & Work Podcast
• The Doxology by Cameron Davidson and Carol Osborne
• The Doxology by The Spirituals

Like all poetry, the Christ Hymn of Philippians 2 is carried by metaphor and marked by distilled language. What is more, the Christ-Form is a distillation of the eternal language of love between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The poetry of this hymn leads only and always to prayer.

Episode 75 | God Distilled: The Christ Hymn Part 3

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• "Death by a Thousand Cuts" by Taylor Swift
• "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" by Hymnology

The first part of the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2 teaches us that God's eternal form, incarnate in Christ, is the form of self-giving love. Through prayer, we can not only see this form, but live it out as God trans-forms us.

Episode 74 | Trans-Formed by Christ: The Christ Hymn Part 2

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• "The Mystery" by Van Morrison

The preamble to the Christ Hymn found in Philippians 2, in which Paul calls us to "do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty conceit," seems to be impossible to actually live out. But, what if every little act of selflessness, every little death of self, becomes the soil of humility, the queen of the virtues? What if we invite the Master Gardener to tend the soil of our lives?

Episode 73 | Death, Soil, and Humility: The Christ Hymn Part 1

Hosted by Jeff Hoffmeyer, Denver Institute's Vice President of Advancement and Theologian in Residence, this podcast seeks to focus on the practice of prayer through scripture as a primary way to know, trust, and rest in God in our daily work and life. I would love to hear from you! Please reach out to me at [email protected] with your feedback.

Wherever you're listening—Spotify, Apple, or YouTube—subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show helps others discover what we're doing here. It's a small way to support the mission—and it means a lot to us.

• TS Eliot, East Coker
• Gungor, "Beautiful Things"