Category: quote
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martin luther king jr, 40 years today
Ben, make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty. These were Martin Luther King Jr’s last words, 40 years ago today. Moments earlier James Earl Ray shot King while he was standing outside of his room on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in…
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christopher wright, “the mission of God”
A friend of mine keeps a blog called Occasional Cigarettes. This guy is working on a masters degree in linguistics and apparently his blog title is something that a linguist would find amusing… but it goes right over my head. Anyway, the other day he quoted Christopher Wright from his latest book, The Mission of…
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novatian (2)
Here’s the 5th and final reflection on Philippians 2: 5-11 from the Ancient Christian Devotional. He received the name that is above every name, which we must certainly understand as nothing other than the name of God. For it belongs to God to be above all. So it follows that the name that is above…
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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…
David W. Swanson 