A truth still pondering
Suffering must be approached with joy and patience, for it is necessary for the production of character and the receiving of grace.
posted by matthew at
1:49 PM
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
There is a name I love that is more than a name. It is a promise,
a truth which I cling to:
Immanuel, God with us.
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2 Comments:
Matthew, please consider Mt 1:21 right up there among my favorite verses.
Somebody told me to check your blog, so I've read the first page or so bro.
My favorite has been "Is the Church Growing Ashamed of the Cross?" I think so, more and more. The current idol is often a form of "me," (cf. Rm 1:23), or something, anything but, the work of Christ being sufficient.
The form of me that becomes an idol is that Christ is just a means to get to the "powerful me," who I now am, and if so-and-so is not powerful like "me," they're not even a Christian.
Larry,
Good thoughts. Augustine defines sin as curving into oneself, the latin phrase being "homo incurvatus in se." This has been the fundamental struggle for all of humanity since the beginning.
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