Monday, March 31, 2025

Are you logical? Some wisdom from a church father

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“For if we think of the Word [λόγον] in the beginning, the Word [λόγον] who is with God, the Word [λόγον] who is God, perhaps we shall be ab...

How Great Our Joy

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182 How Great Our Joy 1 While by the sheep we watched at night,    glad tidings brought an angel bright. Refrain:    How great our joy!   ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming

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174 Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming 1 Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming    From tender stem hath sprung!    Of Jesse's lineage coming  ...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne

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170 Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne 1 Thou didst leave Thy throne and Thy kingly crown,    When Thou camest to earth for me;    But in Bethlehe...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Is it real?

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Knowledge, like truth, is relative to understanding. Our folk view of knowledge as being absolute comes from the same source as our folk vie...

Holy Ghost, with Light Divine

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162 Holy Ghost, with Light Divine 1 Holy Ghost, with light divine,    Shine upon this heart of mine;    Chase the shades of night away,    ...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

It's the way we look at things...

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It is our objectivist legacy that we view rationality as being purely mental, unemotional, detached—independent of imagination, of social fu...

Sweet, Sweet Spirit

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159 Sweet, Sweet Spirit 1 There's a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place,    And I know that it's the Spirit of the Lord;    There are...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Philosophy matters…

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Philosophy matters. It matters more than most people realize, because philosophical ideas that have developed over the centuries enter our c...

Fill Me Now (hymn)

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153 Fill Me Now 1 Hover o’er me, Holy Spirit,    Bathe my trembling heart and brow.    Fill me with Thy hallowed presence;    Come, O come ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Mind as computer?

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Since the digital computer works by symbol manipulation and since its symbols can be interpreted in terms of a data base, which is often vie...

Tozer for Tuesday

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I know there are households where the servants are better off than many householders are. In the kingdom of God, the humblest servant that s...

Spirit, Now Live in Me (hymn)

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151 Spirit, Now Live in Me 1 O holy Dove of God descending,    You are the love that knows no ending.    All of our shattered dreams You’re...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Stagnation

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Let men out in the world stagnate, but Christians do not stagnate. We have God, the everlasting, self-renewing fountain that never gets stal...

Come, Holy Spirit

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150 Come, Holy Spirit 1 Come as a wisdom to children    Come as new sight to the blind    Come Lord as strength to my weakness    Take me s...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Blessed Quietness (hymn)

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145 Blessed Quietness 1 Joys are flowing like a river,    Since the Comforter has come;    He abides with us forever,    Makes the trusting...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

The Comforter Has Come

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143 The Comforter Has Come 1 O spread the tidings 'round    Wherever man is found,    Wherever human hearts and human woes abound;    L...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Capacity to reason

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The capacity to reason is usually taken as defining what human beings are and as distinguishing us from other things that are alive. If we un...

An Affirmation

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139 An Affirmation WE BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST THE LORD,     Who was promised to the people of Israel,     Who came in the flesh to dwell am...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

True Religion

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True religion is not discovered or conscripted by man. Christianity grows downward from heaven, not upward from the earth. It does not stand...