I very much wonder where this practice has originated. This is contrary to the evangelical and apostolic discipline, in some places water is offered in the Lord’s cup. But water by itself cannot represent the blood of Christ. The Holy Spirit also is not silent in the Psalms on the sacrament of these things, when [...]
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Cyprian
Posted in Christian Life, Discipleship, God, History, Holy Spirit, Imagery, Meaning, Mystery, Sacraments, Spirituality, Worship on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Christian Life, Discipleship, Experience, Faith, Gospel, Humanity, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, Story on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What happens here [in Mark’s Gospel] is that we are invited into becoming full participants in the story of Jesus and shown how to become such participants. We are not simply told that Jesus is the Son of God; we not only become beneficiaries of his atonement; we are invited to die his death and [...]
Benjamin Franklin
Posted in Character, Christian Life, Pride on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. (Benjamin Franklin, from his autobiography)
Thomas Howard
Posted in Belief, Christian Life, Church, Discipleship, Jesus Christ, Sacraments on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the simple act of taking bread, and of blessing, breaking and giving it to His disciples, the Lord gathered up all the mystery of the gospel: that the Word must become flesh, and that this flesh must be broken for the life of the world…
At that supper table with His friends, Jesus revealed Himself [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted in Autonomy, Christian Life, Church, Community, Sin on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, not withstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final breakthrough to fellowship does not occur because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout [...]
Maud Flanders
Posted in Christian Life, Humorous, Judgmentalism, Religion, Skepticism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was at Bible camp, learning how to be more judgmental. (Maud Flanders on The Simpsons)
George MacDonald
Posted in Christian Life, Church, City, Discipleship, Love on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus didn’t die in a Cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves, on the town garbage heap at a cross roads so cosmopolitan that they had to write his name in Hebrew and in Greek. (George MacDonald, late 19th c. writer and poet)
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Baptism, Christian Life, Discipleship, Sacraments on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many people assume that spirituality is about becoming emotionally intimate with God. That’s a naïve view of spirituality. What we’re talking about is the Christian life. It’s following Jesus. Spirituality is no different from what we’ve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to [...]
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