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Jan 22, 2012, 7:57 pm
Our desires, our powers are nothing, just as Jonah here called out in pressing need. No merit was present, for he had sinned very seriously against the Lord. And so the only thing to do was to cry out, to cry out “to the Lord.” For the Lord is the only one to whom we must flee as to a sacred anc... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2011, 6:27 pm
As we are on the road to Easter, we notice shops getting filled with chocolate bunnies and eggs. Not to be outdone, you can also get a chocolate Jesus... like an immaculate confection.
Many people struggle with the real Jesus and so we have made him plastic, we have made him chocolate, we have ma... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Mar 23, 2011, 6:25 pm
Do you know what the word “sin” means? Dictionary definitions don’t fully capture what we already know through our own struggles, failures and mess. Scripture doesn’t offer a concise definition either but sin works as a backdrop throughout bible story. If we took sin out of the bible we woul... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 21, 2010, 11:16 pm
"He came to take our place, in all our human, earthly life and activity, in order that we may have his place as God's beloved children, in all our human and earthly life and activity, sharing with Jesus in the communion of God's own life and love as Father, Son and Spirit."
- Thomas F. Torrance,... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Nov 11, 2010, 6:41 pm
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own—a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.”
- Albert Einstein, column for The New York Times, Nov. 9, 1930 (reprinted in The New York Times obituary, A... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Oct 6, 2010, 7:41 pm
"The Lord did not come to enable you to recognize the omnipotence of God as creator but to enable you to know him as the Father of that Son who addresses you."
- Hillary of Poitiers from "On the Trinity" 3.22 Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2010, 6:50 pm
2010 KBBC: Week 1, Day 1 | Der Evangelische Theologe
The Barth Blog Con is up and running for 2010.
Always a great thing! Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Sep 13, 2010, 6:16 am
"... we must recognize belief as the source of all knowledge. Tacit assent and intellectual passions, the shaping of an idiom and of a cultural heritage, affiliation to a likeminded community: such are the impulses which shape our vision of the nature of things on which we rely for our mastery of ... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Sep 13, 2010, 6:09 am
"Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence."
-Michael Polanyi Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Jul 24, 2010, 7:35 am
George Hunsinger:
"A Christian, according to Athanasius, was someone who, by faith in Christ, was given a share in the eternal life of the Holy Trinity. Faith in Christ meant believing in him as the eternal Son, who became flesh to deliver us from the corruptions of sin and death, in which we wer... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Apr 15, 2010, 10:34 pm
“unless we think — of God as Trinitarian we have no knowledge of God at all, only the Word “God” flutters through our brain naked, and void of meaning.”
-John Calvin
quoted in an article by Berten Waggoner Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Mar 29, 2010, 12:26 am
Our readings take us on a rollercoaster ride beginning from the heights of Palm Sunday where Jesus is welcomed as a victorious but peaceful King by the crowds saying,
‘Blessed is the king
who comes in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven,
and glory in the highest heaven!’
But then these ... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Jun 16, 2009, 8:00 am
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God’s benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit. (Institutes, III.2.7). Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Luke 4:21-30
Epiphany 4th 2010
It’s too good to be true!
One year I received a tax return that was way more than I expected and the strangest thing happened. I began to disbelieve it. It felt too good to be true! I worried that it was a mistake and that if I spent it I may have to pay it back or s... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
When I came across Preaching Re-Imagined – The Role of the Sermon in Communities of Faith by Doug Pagitt I was looking for something.
I had already begun to “re-imagine” how I do the sermon for the Bathurst Anglican Youth Ministry church service called church@630. This is where I regularly p... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
As a child, I would often be amazed at my father’s work bench and surrounding machinery, tool cabinets and jars of nails and screws under the house. I was born and raised in a large Queenslander house the ones propped up on stilts to allow airflow underneath. And so under the house, for me, was t... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
"The true meaning of the Gospel of Grace is this: that God unconditionally calls each of us to seek release from our selfish ways so that we can join the self-giving fellowship of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and his love is so at work in us to transform us that one day we will enjoy fellowship w... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
An atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than a believer caught up in his own false image of God.
~ Martin Buber Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
". . . Rationalistic fundamentalists are those who think they can treat biblical statements as independent from the ultimate Being to whom they refer. Once this move is made they can then apply preconceived rational structures to fit biblical statements (such as “God is love”) into a dogmatic sy... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Now someone asks, How has Christ abolished sin, banished the separation between us and God, and acquired the righteousness to render God favorable and kindly toward us? To this we can in general reply that he has achieved this for us by the whole course of his obedience …. In short, from the ... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
1.
In the beginning the Word
was; he lived in God
and possessed in him
his infinite happiness.
That same Word was God,
who is the Beginning;
he was in the beginning
and had no beginning.
He was himself the Beginning
and therefore had no beginning.
The Word is called Son;
he was... Comment - Like
Michael P. posted an article on
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
"Like Christ the Holy Spirit is one in being and of the same being as the Father, but unlike Christ the Holy Spirit is not one in being and of the same being as we are, for he incarnated the Son but does not incarnate himself, he utters the Word but does not utter himself. He directs us through hims... Comment - Like
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