Nick N.
@nicnap.bsky.social
Pilgrim longing for a better country; ARP Pastor; Wendell Berry appreciator; used-to-be farmhand now suburbanite; Narnian at heart; sporadic poster.
I died for Beauty - but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room -
He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty", I replied -
"And I - for Truth - Themself are One -
We Brethren are", He said - 1/2
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room -
He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty", I replied -
"And I - for Truth - Themself are One -
We Brethren are", He said - 1/2
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I died for Beauty - but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room -
He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty", I replied -
"And I - for Truth - Themself are One -
We Brethren are", He said - 1/2
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room -
He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty", I replied -
"And I - for Truth - Themself are One -
We Brethren are", He said - 1/2
It is time for my semi-regular posting of this sermon. I have listened to it twice in the past two days and have benefited greatly both times. Please give it a listen.
www.tinysa.com/sermon/10211...
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A Privileged Life
Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson | St. Stephen Reformed Church
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November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It is time for my semi-regular posting of this sermon. I have listened to it twice in the past two days and have benefited greatly both times. Please give it a listen.
www.tinysa.com/sermon/10211...
www.tinysa.com/sermon/10211...
Having, and defending, and celebrating, instead of receiving, submitting to, and praying, the Bible masks an enormous amount of non-reading. -Eugene Peterson-
October 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Having, and defending, and celebrating, instead of receiving, submitting to, and praying, the Bible masks an enormous amount of non-reading. -Eugene Peterson-
Man am I grown, a man's work must I do.
Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King,
Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King–
Else, wherefore born?
-Tennyson-
Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King,
Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King–
Else, wherefore born?
-Tennyson-
October 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Man am I grown, a man's work must I do.
Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King,
Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King–
Else, wherefore born?
-Tennyson-
Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King,
Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King–
Else, wherefore born?
-Tennyson-
Friends, This is an important listen & it’s only 5 minutes. Please give it a hearing.
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Hardened Hearers
Podcast Episode · Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson · 09/23/2025 · 5m
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September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Friends, This is an important listen & it’s only 5 minutes. Please give it a hearing.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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All the flowers of the spring
Meet to perfume our burying;
These have but their growing prime,
And man does flourish but his time.
Survey our progress from our birth—
We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. 1/2
Meet to perfume our burying;
These have but their growing prime,
And man does flourish but his time.
Survey our progress from our birth—
We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. 1/2
August 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
All the flowers of the spring
Meet to perfume our burying;
These have but their growing prime,
And man does flourish but his time.
Survey our progress from our birth—
We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. 1/2
Meet to perfume our burying;
These have but their growing prime,
And man does flourish but his time.
Survey our progress from our birth—
We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. 1/2
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
-Alexander Pope-
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
-Alexander Pope-
August 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
-Alexander Pope-
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
-Alexander Pope-
[E]verything, especially everything that looks like wreckage, is material that God is using to make a praising life. -Eugene Peterson-
August 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
[E]verything, especially everything that looks like wreckage, is material that God is using to make a praising life. -Eugene Peterson-
People hear us pray in worship, they listen to us preach and teach from the Scriptures, they notice when we are listening to them in a conversation, but they can never know if we are attending to God in any of this. 1/3
July 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
People hear us pray in worship, they listen to us preach and teach from the Scriptures, they notice when we are listening to them in a conversation, but they can never know if we are attending to God in any of this. 1/3
Sometimes a summer meal is just black-eyed peas and cornbread. And truth be told, there’s not much better.
July 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Sometimes a summer meal is just black-eyed peas and cornbread. And truth be told, there’s not much better.
The Word of God is not simply the content of the Bible, but the voice of God speaking to us in and through it. -Kevin Vanhoozer-
July 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The Word of God is not simply the content of the Bible, but the voice of God speaking to us in and through it. -Kevin Vanhoozer-
This deserves a wide hearing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Inside Out Kingdom
Podcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · 07/04/2025 · 42m
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July 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This deserves a wide hearing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The sermon is not a product; it is a participation. -Lloyd-Jones-
July 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The sermon is not a product; it is a participation. -Lloyd-Jones-
Religious people obey God to get things. Gospel people obey God to get God — to resemble him, to know him, to delight him. We do, out of love. -Tim Keller-
May 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Religious people obey God to get things. Gospel people obey God to get God — to resemble him, to know him, to delight him. We do, out of love. -Tim Keller-
Do yourself a favor and give this a listen — best five minutes of listening you’ll do today: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson
Christianity Podcast · Updated Daily · Many people today think that seeing is believing, but Christians know there is more to life than meets the eye. We must look beyond this momentary life to unders...
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May 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Do yourself a favor and give this a listen — best five minutes of listening you’ll do today: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
In matters of God’s grace hyperboles are understatements. -Eugene Peterson-
April 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
In matters of God’s grace hyperboles are understatements. -Eugene Peterson-
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins-
-Gerard Manley Hopkins-
April 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins-
-Gerard Manley Hopkins-
I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins-
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins-
April 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins-
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins-
He has a sin of mine, he its near brother,
Knowing them well I can but see the fall.
This fault in one I found, that in another:
And so, though each have one while I have all,
No better serves me now, save best ; no other,
Save Christ: to Christ I look, on Christ I call. -Gerard Manley Hopkins-
Knowing them well I can but see the fall.
This fault in one I found, that in another:
And so, though each have one while I have all,
No better serves me now, save best ; no other,
Save Christ: to Christ I look, on Christ I call. -Gerard Manley Hopkins-
March 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
He has a sin of mine, he its near brother,
Knowing them well I can but see the fall.
This fault in one I found, that in another:
And so, though each have one while I have all,
No better serves me now, save best ; no other,
Save Christ: to Christ I look, on Christ I call. -Gerard Manley Hopkins-
Knowing them well I can but see the fall.
This fault in one I found, that in another:
And so, though each have one while I have all,
No better serves me now, save best ; no other,
Save Christ: to Christ I look, on Christ I call. -Gerard Manley Hopkins-
This is worth hearing by as many as can hear it:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Be Angry, Sin Not
Podcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · 03/03/2025 · 46m
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March 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is worth hearing by as many as can hear it:
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The very fact that you’re reading this on social media tells me you need to hear this: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Soft-Handed Gentleness
Podcast Episode · Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson · 02/20/2025 · 5m
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February 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The very fact that you’re reading this on social media tells me you need to hear this: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 1/
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 1/
January 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 1/
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 1/
Ordinary time is not what biblical people endure or put up with or hurry through as we wait around for the end time and its rocket lunch into eternity. It is a gift through which we participate in the present and daily work of God… 1/
December 31, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Ordinary time is not what biblical people endure or put up with or hurry through as we wait around for the end time and its rocket lunch into eternity. It is a gift through which we participate in the present and daily work of God… 1/
Scripture is not an inert object to be studied, as if reading the Bible were an "I-It" relation. It is rather a means for encountering the living God, "the primary means by which God presents himself to us.” 1/2
December 18, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Scripture is not an inert object to be studied, as if reading the Bible were an "I-It" relation. It is rather a means for encountering the living God, "the primary means by which God presents himself to us.” 1/2