Newsletter 1.2
Marva Dawn on Christian Worship and Raising Children
The worst thing churches can do about worship for the sake of their children is to choose music and worship forms according to their taste…
‘The Greatest of These is Worship’: N.T. Wright on Worship
Worship is humble and glad; worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates truth as God’s truth, not its own. True worship doesn’t put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn’t forced, isn’t half-hearted, doesn’t keep looking at its watch, doesn’t worry what the person in the next pew may be doing. [...]
The Significance of Pentecost
It is introduced by an explosion of colors. Red, white, and green usher in and sustain a season of magic and life. Bursting with spiritual significance, the season calls us to our God, and invites us to remember what he has done for us and in us. The Spirit speaks to our souls in the [...]
Ten Propositions on the Doctrine of the Trinity
Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday, one of the high days on the Christian calendar. Unfortunately – even tragically – this doctrine plays a minor role in our thinking, I’m afraid. Kim Fabricious’ propositions help to explain why it is crucial that we learn to understand what it is we claim about God when we say God [...]
Living as the Beloved Community: Reflections on Phil 3.12-14
Philippians 4: 12-14Philippians 4: 12-14English: World English Bible – WEB12 I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. 13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. [...]
St Augustine on God’s Beauty
“To us who can discern he is everywhere beautiful: beautiful in the hands of his parents, beautiful in his miracles, beautiful in his flagellation, beautiful giving up his spirit, beautiful in carrying the cross, beautiful on the cross, beautiful in heaven.” Quoted in Richard Viladesau, The Beauty of the Cross: the Passion of Christ in [...]
Jenson and Peterson on Reading Scripture
‘Christians feed on Scripture. Holy Scripture nurtures the holy community as food nurtures the human body. Christians don’t simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing [...]
John of Ruysbroeck on the Threefold Coming of Christ
In the first coming He became man, for man’s sake, out of love. The second coming takes place daily, often and many times, in every loving heart, with new graces and with new gifts, as each is able to receive them. The third coming we shall see as the coming in the Judgment, or at [...]