Sadly, this blog has lain dormant for a few weeks while I’ve been taking midterms and considering the things of God on my xanga blog. (Mostly, I just wanted to bump that silly post on drinking down the page.)
I’ve just picked up John Stott’s work The Cross of Christ, again, as well as a book [...]
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THOMAS AQUINAS. SUMMA THEOLOGICA, FIRST PART, QUESTION 105, ARTICLE 4. “WHETHER GOD CAN MOVE THE CREATED WILL?”
Objection 1. It would seem that God cannot move the created will. For whatever is moved from without, is forced. But the will cannot be forced. Therefore it is not moved from without; and therefore cannot be moved [...]
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(Since the last post wasn’t controversial enough)
Obviously the first churches were held in people’s houses. There really wasn’t anywhere else to meet. So really, “house churches” is not quite what I’m talking about. But then, you know what I’m talking about, don’t you?
Here are a list of some of the problems I worry about with [...]
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Well, lately I’ve been attempting to discern the will of God for my life. In other words, I’ve been attempting to understand the future in order to control it myself. In other words, I don’t think God’s been doing a real good job as God, and I’d like to take over for him. At the [...]
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WorldMagBlog featured a post today about how infants begin to practice deception at an earlier age than previously supposed. [Link to referenced Telegraph UK article]
According to researcher Dr. Vasudevi Reddy:
“Fake crying is one of the earliest forms of deception to emerge, and infants use it to get attention even though nothing is wrong. You can [...]
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As much as we work to seek God, knock on Heaven’s door, and ask for His presence, it’s the influence of his Holy Spirit that comes and gives us the very desire to do it.
Have you ever thought about how really and truly undeserved God’s grace is? We don’t lose anything and we get everything.
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Tito Mercado preached this morning.
God’s adoptive love was the topic of his sermon, and the Scripture passage was Ephesians 1.
[3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, [4] even as he chose us in him before the [...]
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It’s true that reflective faith is not saving faith. You don’t have to “have faith in your faith” in order to be saved. Faith is really nothing more than believing Christ’s promise to be true. You don’t have to work anything up in your own heart. And yet, this kind of belief is the hardest thing in the world precisely because it cannot be worked up. You cannot convince yourself of it. This is the glorious mystery of saving faith; it is a gift from God. No one is even capable of believing Christ’s promises unless that faith is placed in his or her heart.
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Doug Phillips writes of a C of E service he attended at Westminster Abbey [Reformation21]:
…the freight of the worship service was carried by the liturgy, which of course was straight Cranmer. It was tremendously redemptive in focus and extremely rich. It strikes me that this liturgically-loaded service has a great strength and a [...]
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Political philosopher Eric Voegelin wrote in his book The New Science of Politics: “From the Gnostic mysticism of the two worlds emerges the pattern of the universal wars that has come to dominate the twentieth century” (151). Central to the immanentist vision which Voegelin criticises is a strong faith in and regard for the basic [...]
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