Nathan R. Hale

A personal blog

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  • My beautiful wife and best friend, Amber.

    Amber Hale, left with a wonderful smile

  • Feels different to get 8 full hours of sleep.

    Sleep chart showing over 8 hours of actual sleep time

  • Good morning! Country Squire Chesapeake tobacco, Costco coffee, sacred reading.

  • What a blessing to spend some time with one of my spiritual fathers and founding pastor of Desert Mission Anglican Church, Fr. John Dyson. So thankful for how God has blessed me with his ministry and friendship.

    Fr. Nathan Hale, left, next to Fr. John Dyson

  • Working on preaching with fewer notes. This morning I took about half of what I usually do with me, and was able to fit it all on a single sheet of paper tucked in my Bible.

  • One of my core “mentors from afar,” Tim Keller, has died. It feels like such a tremendous loss. Although I did not know him personally, he had a tremendous personal impact on me.

    Tim Keller’s preaching and teaching and pastoral posture have helped me profoundly, and formed me deeply. So many times, his writing and preaching steadied my faith and brought me deeper into the beauty of the biblical story.

    I give thanks to God for what I know of his life and ministry. Praying for that special peace that comes from the Spirit to comfort him and all his loved ones.

  • NT Wright on the martyrdom of St. Stephen:

    In the great Jewish tradition of martyrdom, the dying called down curses on their persecutors; the first Christian martyr followed his Lord in praying for their forgiveness. But forgiveness wasn’t what they wanted (despite the fact that this was what the Temple stood for!); they wanted their worldview left intact. That’s the stuff that stonings are made of. But God has laid in Zion the true corner stone, precious beyond imagining to those who believe.

    N. T. Wright, Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year A, (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2001), 63.

  • Finished 2023: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 📚

    Essential ideas for understanding the essentially foundational nature of sleep, written with energy and in some places even poetry.

  • Finished 2023: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North 📚

    Fun and whimsical comic. Great lighthearted reading.

  • A new retrowave-synth-experimentation: ISIT