Friday, June 30, 2023

Intervention? Or loving care?

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For the pantheist, God and the world are basically the same thing: the world is, if you like, God’s self-expression. For the Deist, the worl...

Death is gain

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1082 C. M. Death gain to the faithful. WHY should our tears in sorrow flow    When God recalls his own,    And bids them leave a world of ...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Made for each other, but…

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We are made for each other. Yet making relationships work, let alone making them flourish, is often remarkably difficult. That is the same par...

What timorous worms we mortals are!

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1070 L. M. Christ’s presence makes death easy. WHY should we start, and fear to die?    What tim’rous worms we mortals are!    Death is th...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Amos on Worship

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M. Daniel Carroll R. has an article on Amos and worship at Christianity Today . You definitely should read it! (HT: Jim Eisenbraun) To whe...

A central element of faith

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It is important to see, and to say, that those who follow Jesus are committed, as he taught us to pray, to God’s will being done “on earth a...

memento mori

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1069 C. M. A voice from the grave. HARK! from the tombs a doleful sound,    My ears, attend the cry :—    Ye living men, come view the gr...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

New book!

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I get to edit a lot of really interesting books, but rarely do I request a copy for my personal library. I think over the last ten years, I...

It hinges on the resurrection

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But further: since Paul first expressed it, the Christian Church knows that everything depends on belief in the Resurrection. “If Christ hath...

Tozer for Tuesday

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So count on it [trials/troubles]. When something like this is mentioned, some people worry that it will discourage young people from becomin...

Oh God, our help in ages past

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1059 C. M. Man frail — God eternal. O GOD, our help in ages past,    Our hope for years to come,    Our shelter from the stormy blast,   ...
Monday, June 26, 2023

The doctrine of the two natures

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With the doctrine that Jesus is the God-Man, theological thought returns from the sphere “beyond history” to the Historical. We only spoke o...

We're traveling to the grave

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1055 C. M. Frailty of life. THEE we adore, eternal Name!    And humbly own to thee    How feeble is our mortal frame-    What dying worms ...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

The bridegroom cometh!

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1050 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. The Bridegroom cometh. YE virgin souls, arise;    With all the dead, awake;    Unto salvation wise,    Oil...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Another Vigil hymn

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1048 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. A living sacrifice unto the Lord. WISDOM ascribe, and might, and praise,    To God, who lengthens out our days;...
Friday, June 23, 2023

The mystery of the incarnation

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None of them says anything about “how” the Incarnation took place: they simply witness to the fact of the Incarnation. This might serve as ...

A vigil hymn

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1047 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. A solemn vigil. HOW many pass the guilty night    In revelling and frantic mirth!    The creature is their sol...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Immanuel!

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No prophet ever said that he had “come”; he says that the Word of God has “come” to him; by this he means the divine transcendence, which is...

A mariner's prayer

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1044 S. M. Praise for protecting mercy. WHEN o’er the deep we rode,    By winds and storms assail’d;    We call’d upon the ocean’s God,  ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

A true Christology

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If Jesus be really Reconciler and Lord, then He is God. Faith knows that this is what He is. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto ...