So God doesn’t eternally condemn or separate from his people, but he called a specific people because he does condemn the nations, right? After all, they don’t worship him, but other gods instead. They are mired in practices God condemns and it seems like God completely rejected them when he called his own people. And [...]
The tenth and final chapter of Thomas Howard’s book, Envoi, stresses that all Christians engaged in this discussion are, or should be allies, and not enemies. While some embrace modern Christian divisions and pluralism (unfortunately including my own SBC denomination as illustrated in a recent issue of the SBTC Texan), most Christians recognize the wrongness [...]
Head over to Elizabeth Esther’s blog for her monthly Saturday Evening Blog Post! If you have a blog, consider adding one of your January posts for us all to enjoy. From January, after considering several posts, I decided to include the post from my series on Fr. Alexander Schmemann’s book in which I reflected on [...]
I often have a difficult time expressing my thoughts about the myriad strands of Christian belief without saying things that are prone to be misunderstood. I doubt this attempt will be any different. But I’ve had a variety of thoughts swirling around my head lately and it’s time to reduce at least some of them [...]
In other posts, I’ve looked at the Eucharist in history, at the mystery of the Eucharist, at its place in liturgy, and many other questions. A conversation with my youngest daughter this past week left me reflecting on the elements or gifts themselves or, to put it more prosaically, the bread and wine. There have [...]
In today’s section of Athanasius’ treatise, he continues to make his point that the time has passed for the Messiah. There cannot yet be a future one. I recommend meditating on the entire section (as I always do), but wanted to highlight this statement.
If then there is now among the Jews king or prophet or [...]
First, here is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s podcast, At the Intersection of East and West, which goes along with today’s post.
For the Life of the World: Part Three
Today’s post covers sections 3 and 4 of the second chapter of For the Life of the World. After looking at the centrality of joy, we [...]
In this section of his treatise, Athanasius writes of the proof of death’s destruction in the contempt with which Christians view death.
For that death is destroyed, and that the Cross is become the victory over it, and that it has no more power but is verily dead, this is no small proof, or rather an [...]