We experience time as “triune reality of past, present, and future” (p 14), Brandon Gallaher notes. It has often been said, as a way of getting to the same point, that time is an arrow. To be more specific, in geometric terms, time is a ray, a line that stretches in only one direction. Gallaher …
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who are being …
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Hebrews 12 caroms around from topic to topic so quickly and unexpectedly that it’s hard to keep up with the argument. The author begins with self-discipline, turns immediately to parental discipline, suddenly contrasts peace and holiness with turning away from God and then ties that to the passions (that is, desires which take control of …
An extended quote from Michael Gillis. It can be found in text form here or in podcast form here.Whenever we suffer in any way, “from men, from demons or from the body,” as St. Isaac puts it, we are tempted. And how we deal with that temptation makes all the difference. Do we turn to …
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I just ran across another place in Romans where Paul says two opposite things one after another, and in so doing demonstrates that they're actually the same thing. This one is in 5:2f. The NRSV says, "… we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast …
I was reminded this morning of what Jürgen Moltmann said in The Crucified God (sorry, no pg #, the book's at home). He identified God as "the event of Golgotha." The wags wondered if it is possible to pray to an event. In response, Moltmann said that we don't pray to the event, but rather …
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