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Engaging Creation-Praise Him and Highly Exalt Him Forever
Read more: Engaging Creation-Praise Him and Highly Exalt Him ForeverWriting on beauty can seem an abstract approach to the created order – except that it draws our attention to see the world in a particular way. It is important, it seems to me, to at least see the world. So much of theology and what passes for religion can be mere intellectual exercise that […]
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May God Bless Your Day
Read more: May God Bless Your Day
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A Sidebar Addition
Read more: A Sidebar AdditionDespite maintaining a blog site – I confess to being somewhat technology-challenged. Thus my site is not normally an example of the latest design, etc. However, I just learned how to use a piece of blog technology to enhance my sidebar. I have added a “vodpod widget” – meaning there is now a small collection […]
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Why Should Beauty Matter?
Read more: Why Should Beauty Matter?Reflecting on my last two posts, The Nature of Things and Our Salvation and Beauty and the Salvation of the World, I have a question: What is the nature of things such that beauty should matter? It is a commonplace in our culture to think that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” (rendering […]
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The Nature of Things – And Our Salvation
Read more: The Nature of Things – And Our SalvationReflecting on yesterday’s post, I thought it worthwhile to share these thoughts again on the nature of our salvation. It offers a short summary of the difference between a moral and an existential understanding of the Christian faith and why the difference matters. Indeed, as I look through my writings I know this is a […]
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Personal Issues
Read more: Personal IssuesThe title of this post is quite misleading – for in proper theological language – there are no “personal issues.” Our culture is quite fond of issues – both the politico-entertainment industry – and many individuals. It is a word and a phenomenon that has been baptized by the culture such that “being concerned with […]
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Prayers By the Lake XXV – Prayers for the Departed
Read more: Prayers By the Lake XXV – Prayers for the DepartedThis poem is from the collection of poems by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, the great 20th century Serbian saint. The Church continues its journey through the 50 days of Pascha and will conclude the feast with the celebration of the Feast of Pentecost (Troitsa) at the end of which the Kneeling Prayers are offered where (among […]
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Negative Thoughts and the Communion of Prayer
Read more: Negative Thoughts and the Communion of PrayerTo pray for someone else means that, because of the good disposition of our heart towards him, we help him to resist the negative thoughts that he may have, and not without cause, about us. On the contrary, not to pray for someone else means that we justify by our lack of love the negative […]
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The Kindness of Strangers
Read more: The Kindness of StrangersI am sitting in the Dallas airport, waiting for my departure time, tired and ready to return to Tennessee. As always, my time in Dallas has been largely spent in Church and has been more than I could have imagined. This year (or at least this visit) I have been increasingly aware of the “community” […]
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