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Ancient and Modern Reflections on Incarnation

By on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 | No Comments

“We needed an Incarnate God, a God put to death, that we might live.  We were put to death together with Him, that we might be cleansed; we rose again with Him because we were put to death with Him; we were glorified with Him, because we rose again with Him,” Gregory Nazianzen, A Select […]

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“God Is Love” is the center stage of theology

By on Friday, October 25th, 2013 | No Comments

“Western theology has had a difficult time placing “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8) at the center stage when discussing the divine attributes. Instead, it emphasizes the more abstract and impersonal attributes of omnipotence and omniscience. In my opinion this results from the failure to place the discussion of the divine nature under the category […]

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A Prayer

By on Monday, October 21st, 2013 | No Comments

  Lord Jesus Christ, beloved and eternal Son of the Father, Homoousios to Patri, Anointed of the Holy Spirit, incarnate, crucified, resurrected and ascended Lord of all creation, I believe in you. With great joy, with the praise of my whole heart I acknowledge and agree that you have found me in my darkness and […]

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Thomas Merton On Stuff

By on Monday, October 14th, 2013 | No Comments

 If what most people take for granted were really true — if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it — I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now … What a […]

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Athanasius of Alexandria On The Incarnation

By on Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 | No Comments

Athanasius of Alexandria “Naturally also, through this union of the immortal Son of God with our human nature, all people were clothed with incorruption in the promise of the resurrection. For the solidarity of humanity is such that, by virtue of the Word’s indwelling in a single human body, the corruption which goes with death […]

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Facebook Posts People Seemed To Like For Holy Week 2013

By on Friday, March 29th, 2013 | No Comments

Here are a few Facebook posts for Holy Week that people liked and commented on.  If you are not a part of my Facebook community, click here to join.   I see a lot of people who think they are tipping sacred cows…but all they are really doing is shoveling cow manure. —– “The Bible’s […]

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A Visit From The Christ Child (a poem)

By on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 | No Comments

In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem, originally called “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”   In many American homes is it read on Christmas Eve.   It begins ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ and redefined the image of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, who had never before been associated with a sleigh or reindeers! […]

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Indifference is Fatal

By on Monday, December 5th, 2011 | No Comments

“Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, […]

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Hope and Faith – two quotes from William Sloane Coffin

By on Sunday, December 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Two quotes from William Sloane Coffin, author of Credo: “Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart’s full of hope, you can be persistent when you can’t be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any […]

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How To Be A Success

By on Thursday, December 1st, 2011 | No Comments

From Bill Coffin: Love, and you are a success whether or not the world thinks so. The highest purpose of Christianity = which is primarily a way of life, not a system of belief – is to love one another. And the firstfruit of love is joy, the joy that represents meaning and fulfillment.

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