Category: quote
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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…
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overheard in the lobby
Overheard in the PCC lobby… You know, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. From, like, the 1930’s. Well, Frankie Valli was born in 1934, but I’m not sure that’s what this junior high school student meant.
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the 8 marks of a robust gospel
The Christian Vision Project has been asking different Christian scholars, artists, and pastors this question: Is our Gospel too small? Scott McKnight recently answered with an article in Christianity Today, The 8 Marks of a Robust Gospel. Scott’s been helpful to me in thinking through how our articulation of the Gospel affects our life together…
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2 quotes from “the myth of a christian nation”
Every couple of years most of PCC’s ministry staff and spouses head west for the National Pastors Convention in San Diego. After the winter we’ve had in Chicagoland, San Diego in February sounds really nice. This year I’ll be posting a few reports from the convention over at Out of Ur. I’m also hoping to…
David W. Swanson 