Patrick Miller
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1,185 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3d ago
Patrick Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm sure that there were some people who became pilgrims for precisely this reason.
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In fact, the reformer Martin Luther famously described his own pilgrimage to Rome as exactly that.
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He said it was an effort to pay for his sins.
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But then he discovered that's a futile effort.
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We humans can add nothing to what Christ did for us on the cross.
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He paid for our sins fully.
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But that's not the only way to see a pilgrimage.
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In fact, there was a far richer, far less transactional understanding of pilgrimage in the ancient world.
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It's an understanding that makes us modern people feel a little itchy because it doesn't fit with our mechanistic, materialistic view of the universe.
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This richer view of pilgrimage was rooted in the idea that some places are different, that some places are thin, that in some places the veil between heaven and earth is almost penetrable.
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And they also understood that the normal doldrum of human life could become an anesthetic, numbing us to ourselves and preventing us from seeing what's happening in our souls.
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I've seen this in my own heart and in the lives of many.
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We become so entrenched and ingrained in our present reality that we stop growing.
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It's not that we want to stop, but we can't see how to move forward.
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And the reason why is because we never step out of our ordinary world, our ordinary time.
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A pilgrimage was a way of doing exactly that, a way of stepping out of ordinary space, ordinary life, ordinary time.
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To step into God's space, God's time, God's life.
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It was a way of seeking an encounter with the living God.
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Jesus in some ways actually modeled this for us.
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And when he goes on these pilgrimages, Matthew presents it oftentimes as a kind of prophetic pattern and fulfillment.
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