Friday, December 01, 2023

Savior, more than life to me

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236 Every Day and Hour. 7. 9. 7. 9. with Refrain. 1 Savior, more than life to me,    I am clinging, clinging close to Thee;    Let Thy prec...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Augustine on creation, part 3 (final)

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Although Augustine clearly believes that creation involves the universe having a beginning, he does not limit God’s creative activity to tha...

Selling out

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Tozer criticized those churches that adopted the methods of the world in order to accomplish the agenda and goals of God. He pointed out thr...

My Jesus I love thee

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234 Gordon. 11. 11. 11. 11. 1 My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine;    for thee all the follies of sin I resign;    my gracious Rede...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

More Augustine and creation

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Creation for Augustine is also ad extra ; that is, God creates the world not from his own nature but as something distinct from himself. (Th...

Savior and/or Lord?

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<idle musing> Yesterday we finished going through the previous Tozer book. Next Tuesday will begin excerpts from Reclaiming Christia...

Jesus calls us, o'er the tumult

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233 Galilee. 8. 7. 8. 7. 1 Jesus calls us, o'er the tumult    of our life's wild, restless sea;    Day by day that voice still call...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Augustine and Creation

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In Augustine’s thought creation takes the place of Plotinian emanation. God’s creation is not a necessary effusion of his being, but a free ...

Go to Bethel…

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Amos [4:4–5] exposes the hidden darkness of these seemingly good activities and good people. Because the sacrifices and offerings have been ...

With charity for all and hatred for none (Tozer for Tuesday)

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Let us by the grace of God, with charity for all and hatred for none, but determination to be loyal to truth if it kills us, put our chin a ...

I need thee ev'ry hour

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232 I Need Thee Every Hour. 6. 4. 6. 4. with Refrain. 1 I need Thee ev'ry hour,    Most gracious Lord;    No tender voice like Thine   ...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Tertullian and philosophy

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Tertullian is often interpreted as an irrational fideist who rejected reason altogether, and is frequently regarded as the source of the phra...

Pass me not, O gentle Savior

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231 Pass Me Not. 8.5.8.5. with Refrain. 1 Pass me not, O gentle Savior,    Hear my humble cry,    While on others Thou art calling,    Do n...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

I lay my sins on Jesus

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230 St. Hilda. 7. 6. 7. 6. D. 1 I lay my sins on Jesus,    the spotless Lamb of God;    He bears them all, and frees us    from the accurse...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

And can it be?

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229 Fillmore. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. 1 And can it be that I should gain    An int'rest in the Savior's blood?    Died He for me, who cau...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Aristotle's God vs. the Christian God

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However, it is important to see the differences between Aristotle’s God and the kind of God Christians believe in. Although many Christians ...

A closer walk

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228 Naomi. C. M. 1 O for a closer walk with God,    a calm and heav'nly frame,    a light to shine upon the road    that leads me to th...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Socrates

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To live well is to live reflectively; we cannot seek for virtue or wisdom or courage without understanding them. In the Apology Socrates goe...

Come, we that love the Lord

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227 St. Thomas. S. M. 1 Come, we that love the Lord,    and let our joys be known;    join in a song with sweet accord,    and thus surroun...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Getting your goat

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I'm copyediting a book for Lockwood Press, Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs in Pharaonic Egypt: A View from the Herd (it's not on the...