Posted in some thoughts on Apr 24th, 2009
From today’s reading in Calvin’s Institutes: Is this what believing means–to understand nothing, provided only that you submit your feeling obediently to the church? Faith rests not on ignorance, but on knowledge. And thi sis, indeed, knowledge not only of God but of the divine will. We do not obtain salvation either because we are [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Apr 22nd, 2009
Given recent controversy, I found this quote from C. S. Lewis particularly insightful: Common sense, disregarding the discomfort, or even the horror, which the idea of turning all our theological language into the feminine gender arouses in most Christians, will ask “Why not? Since God is in fact not a biological being and has no [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Apr 18th, 2009
The name of Jesus is not only light but also food; it is also oil, without which all food of the soul is dry; it is salt, without whose seasoning whatever is set before us is insipid; finally, it is honey in the mouth, melody in the ear, rejoicing in the heart, and at the [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Apr 11th, 2009
And now it’s time again for a “traditional” post on this blog, this being Holy Saturday: Easter Sunday in the Christian calendar is the day on which the Resurrection of Jesus from the Crucifixion (on Good Friday) [took place]. The day in between is Holy Saturday, and is also the occasion for a mass specially [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Apr 8th, 2009
This past weekend our pastor preached a powerful sermon on “The Cross as the Place of Wrath.” He spoke of the Cross as the place of man’s wrath (toward Christ) as well as God’s wrath (toward man) – no doubt leading up to a sermon on the Cross as also the place of God’s glory and [...]
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