Reflections on the loving kindness of the Triune God
This entry repeats the article posted at Cor Deo – please offer any responses on that site The early church father, Irenaeus, offered bread for hungry hearts. Here’s something from him I find helpful in coming to a new year. He wrote sometime around AD 180. “God recapitulated in Himself the ancient formation of man, …
Read More A New WayKeith Green, a radically converted Christian and gifted musician was a one-of-a-kind figure until his death in an airplane crash in the early 1980s. He was bold, reminding me of the apostle Paul’s courage and vision. Here’s a “Greenism” that gives a feel for what he represented: “If your heart takes more pleasure in reading …
Read More A Free GiftThe iconoclastic Canadian thinker of the last century, Marshall McLuhan, coined an aphorism, “The medium is the message.” Some critics disparaged his ideas—calling him more a poet than a philosopher—while others found him intriguing. I find him insightful. Jesus, I realized, said something similar centuries earlier and it bears repeating. McLuhan’s thesis in a nutshell …
Read More McLuhan was right!It can sound pretty presumptuous to say, “I know God.” “Really?” someone might ask. “Are the two of you pretty tight, or is he just an acquaintance?” It would be a mocking question, of course, because most people today treat God either as a distant concept or as a charade played by those who take …
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