Tag: Links
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Grace and Gratitude
“Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice an echo. Gratitude follows grace like thunder lightning.” — Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, IV.1 (T&T Clark International 2004) p. 41
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The Crook in the Lot (2)
“Whatever is the crook in your lot, it is of God’s making; and therefore you may look upon it kindly. Since it is your Father has made it for you, question not but there is a favorable design in it towards you…. “[Since] the crook in the lot is of God’s making, then, eyeing the…
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Double Capacity
[The Christian religion] teaches the righteous, whom it exalts even to participation in the divine, that in this exalted state they still carry within them the source of all corruption, which makes them throughout their lives subject to misery, death, and sin; and it proclaims to the most ungodly that they may still partake of…
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What is Biblical Theology?
Biblical theology is the study of how every text in the Bible relates to every other text in the Bible. It’s the study of the matrix of divine revelation. At the heart of the gospel is the person of Jesus Christ; he is the word of God come in the flesh. The nature of the…
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What is Man?
“What a monster then is man! How strange and chimerical, what a chaos, what a bundle of contradictions, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, a feeble earthworm; a depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the pride and refuse of the universe.” — Blaise Pascal, The Pensees (Penguin Books, 1961) p.…
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Reflections on Man
From Job 14: 1“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. 2 He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. 3 And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? 4 Who…
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A Doctor of the Catholic Church on Justification by Faith Alone
Justification by faith alone is a thorny issue between Catholics and Protestants. There is a tendency for each side to misrepresent the other. Imagine then my surprise to find a Catholic writer who, it seems to me, is not unsympathetic to the classical Protestant understanding of this doctrine. And guess from whom he got the…
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Praying Aright
“I cannot believe that anyone prays aright who never prays for the pardon and removal of unbelief and for the increase of faith. If unbelief is the greatest of sins and faith the greatest of God’s gifts, we are not Christians if these things are not prominent in our prayers.” — John Owen, The Spirit…
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Barth on the Trinity
The doctrine of the Trinity is the church’s best attempt to do justice to the whole Bible’s teaching on God. From the fact that Jesus is Lord – Jesus who himself is begotten of the Father who is Lord, Jesus who sends us the Holy Spirit who is also the Lord – plus the fact…
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Learning From Others
As early as the 4th century A.D. Augustine already addressed the issue of whether we still need to learn from our fellow human beings the meaning of Scripture now that we have the Holy Spirit. In his Preface to “Christian Doctrine” he points out that, in the first place, we would never have learned to…
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