The Great Divorce gives us two primary understandings of Hell. First, Hell is a place of progressive non-existence. Second, the gates of Hell are always locked from the inside.
The Great Divorce – Introduction Read More »
So what does that return look like? A return to the beatific plumb line is not a matter of your own effort to just be better tomorrow. Rather it is a true return to God Himself. If your heart is out of plumb seek him out. Be in constant prayer with God. Words are unnecessary. Go wherever you feel his presence and simply be.
A Sermon on the Beatitudes Read More »
It is in this clause that Jesus speaks most directly about the atonement for he is the one that delivers us from the evil one.
The Lord’s Prayer – Lead Us Not into Temptation Read More »
Merely reducing the work to the bullet points of its content impairs its overall message and power. Therefore, approach the book with a contemplative heart and not an analytical mind.
Imitation of Christ – Introduction, pt.2 Read More »
One of those concepts within chapter one (section 4) is that sin causes us to return through corruption back into non-being. Lewis’ book The Great Divorce, is a story of people in hell who are given the glimpse and opportunity to reside in heaven and the book describes this very process of people becoming non-being due to their sin.
On the Incarnation – Creation and Fall, pt.2 Read More »
For Athanasius, we can only understand the importance and necessity of the Incarnation if we understand that the same agent that created the world (the Logos) is that which becomes incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth.
On the Incarnation – Creation and Fall, pt.1 Read More »
These verses, at least in the modern context, challenge us in the use of proof-texting Scripture. Taking a particular verse of Scripture in which to build a position can be dangerous.
1 Corinthians 14, pt.2 Read More »
Pride is the excessive belief in one’s own abilities that interferes with the individual’s recognition of the grace of God. It is traditionally seen as the sin from which all other sins arise for in Pride we put ourselves in the place of God.
Seven Capital Sins – Pride, pt.1 Read More »
This week we are looking at Praise in the Psalms and Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Please read Psalms 118:15-29, 100, 24, 148-50, and 136.
The Psalms – Praises and Palm Sunday Read More »
Martin Luther read this Psalm every day and said that this Psalm lays out the three means by which anyone can become a great theologian: Prayer, Meditation, and Affliction
The Psalms – Psalm 119 Read More »
