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Testimony

by Patrick Posted on June 20, 2018

When I was 6 or 7, I wrote a personal testimony of faith: As of this past April, now age 43, I am a licensed pastor in The Wesleyan Church. The process wasn’t that difficult. I started it late last … Continue reading →

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Levees of God

by Patrick Posted on May 14, 2013

On the left side of this page there’s a sidebar, and on that sidebar are interspersed quotes. Like particularly pretty stones one might find by a riverbank, I’ve picked these up and have them displayed here, each pointing to a … Continue reading →

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Wait

by Patrick Posted on May 9, 2013

Within the first month of my moving to the mountains in 2003(where I ended the last post), a fire broke out. That’s putting it lightly. Both in number and in verb usage. There were actually a number of fires. And … Continue reading →

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a journey

by Patrick Posted on April 26, 2013

I finished my PhD program a couple of weeks ago. Passed my oral defense “With Distinction”. Which gets me to thinking about my journey to this point, the journey since I finished my Master’s degree (M.Div). Some people go straight … Continue reading →

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Then

by Patrick Posted on April 26, 2013

Something I wrote exactly 9 years ago (three 3s of years ago), back when I was keeping a daily journal: April 26th, 2004 morning » Posted at 7:52 am Some nights I enjoy sleeping. Last night was one of those, … Continue reading →

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Hugin and Munin fly each day over the spacious earth. I fear for Hugin, that he come not back, yet more anxious am I for Munin.
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“Thus says the LORD: Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.”
Jeremiah 6:16
Who Am I?

I’m Patrick Oden, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary and an assistant pastor of Christian formation at The River Church, a Wesleyan Church in Sacramento, California.

I have a PhD in Systematic Theology from Fuller Seminary with a minor in Church History.
I’ve been married to Amy Oden since 2009, and since Easter, 2012 have a girl, Vianne, and as of July 31, 2014 a boy, Oliver.

What’s the deal with ravens? Makes a lot more sense than you might expect.
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“Hence I ought unceasingly to give thanks to God who often pardoned my folly and my carelessness, and on more than one occasion spared His great wrath on me, who was chosen to be His helper and who was slow to do as was shown me and as the Spirit suggested.

And the Lord had mercy on me thousands and thousands of times because He saw that I was ready, but that I did not know what to do in the circumstances.”
~Patrick of Ireland
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“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated even with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.”
~Henry David Thoreau
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“We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths, for the byways and low places of life, if we would learn truths by strong contrasts; and in hovels, in forecastles, and among our own outcasts in foreign lands, see what has been wrought upon our fellow-creatures by accident, hardship, or vice.”
~Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
“The path I’m following is, for me, the way to a fuller life.” ~Miyamoto Musashi
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That in the end
I may find
Something not sold for a penny
In the slums of Mind

That I may break
With these hands
The bread of Wisdom that grows
In the other lands.

For this, for this
Do I wear
The rags of hunger and climb
The unending stair.

~Patrick Kavanaugh
Psalm 13

How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Look on me and answer, LORD my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing the LORD’s praise,
for he has been good to me.
spes quaerens intellectum — spero, ut intelligam
~Jurgen Moltmann
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