John Mark Comer

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3,965 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer · Water From A Deep Well | Struggle E03 · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

You're saying they're a counter movement. voice-verified

To the cultural compromise of the voice-verified

Yeah, one of the things that strikes me reading The Desert Fathers and Mothers, and for those listening, it's pretty accessible stuff. voice-verified

You can read The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, which is kind of the go to book. voice-verified

Uh Thomas Merton's Little Wisdom of the Desert is a great voice-verified

Because it's short, he has an introduction to it, and then kind of his, you know, hits, his uh his highlights of the sayings of the desert fathers. voice-verified

That's a great place to start. voice-verified

It does. voice-verified

But I'm always struck by it's really a wisdom tradition. voice-verified

It is. voice-verified

It sounds very Semitic, very Hebraic. voice-verified

It's not Greco Roman in that platonic sense in the same way. voice-verified

It doesn't have like where more the Western mind is. voice-verified

It's much more par parable based and I feel like that's something we've kind of lost in modern and it wasn't in the whole church in the fourth century, like you know, uh the Cappadocian Fathers, they're very theological, very kind of Western in how they think, very Christocentric. voice-verified

And modern voice-verified

The desert fathers and mothers is not even all that theological at some times. voice-verified

It's like very pragmatic about prayer, about following Christ's example, about discipleship, about the disciplined life. voice-verified

It's a wisdom tradition. voice-verified

And I feel like that's really something voice-verified

missing from Christian spirituality today. voice-verified

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