“The greatest command is this: to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul and all your strength. The second command is like to it: to love your neighbor as yourself. On these depend all the Law and the Prophets.” “A new command I give to …
Category: Application
Thoughts on Art of Martyrs and Martyrdom
For a long time, now, I have been thinking about this tendency of people to have and to keep images of martyrs and martyrdom that attempt some sort of what people call 'realism', and while I dare not condemn the practice for all, I think it has some serious flaws and dangers, at least for …
The Gospel According to Acts: God Raised Jesus
I was reading through the Book of Acts recently, and I noticed that the message preached by the Apostles and various Disciples was primarily the Resurrection – that Jesus, who was crucified, has been raised from the dead by the power of God. A lot of people talk about not “sugarcoating” the Gospel, by which …
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Learning from the Childhood of God and Children
I recently saw a comment to the effect that “it is amazing how Joseph learned from the baby Jesus.” It occurs to me that this is a strange amazement in light of the belief that not only from birth, but from conception itself, there exists a human person, a soul specially and uniquely made in …
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The Image of God in All Creation
“The heavens declare Your glory, and their expanse is the work of Your hands.” “Through Him all things were made, and apart from Him was made nothing that was made.” “He is … the firstfruits of all creation … In Him all things subsist.” “Then God said, 'Let Us make man, in Our image, after …
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Part Two – Fear)
In a previous post, I related the story of the Fall in the Garden of Eden and shared what meaning I see in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In this post, I am going to discuss the fear that seems to precede the taking of the forbidden fruit, and that now …
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This is Not About the Rapture
There is a lot of controversy in certain circles about the way this age of the world will come to its end, about the final things that will precede the Judgment and Revelation of the Lord, and about how those who belong to Him will join Him in unshadowed bliss without the sin that mars …
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Part One)
There is a story that God put the man and the woman in a garden and told them that all the trees of the garden were theirs to eat from, except for one: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Then the serpent came and asked them, “Did God really say that you …
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The Joy and Death of the Friend of the Bridegroom
“I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord! Make straight paths for Him.'” “After me there comes One who ranks ahead of me, for He was before me, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.” “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away …
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Why Those Who Will Not Forgive Cannot Be Forgiven
“Do not judge. For with the measure with which you measure, it will be measured back to you.” “If you do not forgive others, neither will your Father who is in Heaven forgive you your sins.” What if forgiveness is something more, but never less, than the remittance of punishment deserved for wrongs? What if …
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Enthralled By Love 