Category: book
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links: keller, test, o.t. violence, reality of sex
This has been an emotionally tiring day. I’ll spare you the details, but I’m worn out. I just strolled around Lake Ellyn (always therapeutic) while watching the full moon slowly being covered up with clouds that are supposed to bring us snow sometime tonight and tomorrow. That walk combined with the following links are enough…
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epiphanius the latin (2)
Here’s the 4th reflection on Philippians 2: 5-11 from the Ancient Christian Devotional. The Word tasted death one on our behalf, the death on the cross. He went to his death so that by death he might put death to death. The Word, becoming human flesh, did not suffer in his divinity but suffered with…
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cyril of alexandria
Here’s the 3rd reflection on Philippians 2: 5-11 from the Ancient Christian Devotional. He humbled himself, according to the Scriptures, taking on himself the form of a slave. He became like us that we might become like him. The work of the Spirit seeks to transform us by grace into a perfect copy of his…
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novatian
Here’s the 2nd reflection on Philippians 2: 5-11 from the Ancient Christian Devotional. The sovereignty of the divine Word temporarily submitted to assume a man and for a season humbled himself and abased himself, not exercising his nature through his powers, while he bore the man that he had assumed. He emptied himself when he…
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epiphanius the latin
Given this week’s location between Palm and Easter Sundays, this week’s New Testament reading from the Ancient Christian Devotional seemed particularly appropriate. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the…
David W. Swanson 