Category: Scripture
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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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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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lament: wartime | rejoice: springtime
Two significant dates, yesterday and today, remind me of the type of world we live in. Yesterday was the 5-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. During the past five years 3,392 US soldiers have died in Iraq. Estimates of Iraqi civilian causalities are much more difficult to come by. The accepted rates of “violent…
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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 