Philippians – Background
In one of the last letters Paul wrote before his execution, he rejoices with his first partners in his ministry and reminds them of the person they both work for.
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Love’s Trinity – A Sermon for Trinity Sunday
The question remains as to how we see this Reality that we are joint Beloveds with Christ? How can we know that we too are the Beloved of God? How can we not only understand the Trinity but experience it in our lives? How can we be assured?
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Revelations of Divine Love – Revelations Fourteen and Fifteen
God’s message to Julian is for patience to await for God’s will to be carried out at the right time. She recognizes that impatience prevents her (and us) from living life now, and simply knowing the perfect end that will come should be enough.
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Revelations of Divine Love – Revelation Thirteen, pt.3
In this Revelation, Christ reminds Julian with a “love and assurance of spiritual safekeeping” that although she will sin and thereby experience a separation from God, this separation is never the end because “all will be well.”
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Revelations of Divine Love – Revelation Thirteen, pt.2
This union between each of us and the Trinity, this at-one-ment, this final reconciliation is what salvation constitutes. Everything – the Incarnation, the Cross, the Resurrection – works towards this ultimate union between the divine and human when “all will be made well.”
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Revelations of Divine Love – Revelations Ten through Twelve
In Revelation Eleven, Mary becomes the representative of all of humanity. Therefore, just as Christ glorifies Mary, so will he glorify all of us as well.
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Revelations of Divine Love – Revelation Seven
God’s very real presence in our lives is unaffected by how we are feeling. She ends this Revelation with the insight that “bliss lasts forever, and pain passes and will come to nothing.”
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The Prophetic Imagination – Energizing and Amazement in Jesus of Nazareth
Ultimately, the prophetic imagination does not simply herald the reversal of the socio-economic order, but the overcoming of Death, Hell, and the spiritual forces of darkness.
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Epiphany – The Baptism of Jesus – Matt. 3, pt.2
The question, however, is why does Jesus need to be baptized? Why would Jesus need to repent and be ritually cleansed?
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Epiphany – The Visitation of the Magi – Matt. 2:1-12, pt.1
Within this story, we remember and celebrate the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles (the Magi). This fulfills the promise that all the nations, not just Israel, will be blessed through him.
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