How to be Thankful
I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people.- 1 Tim 2:1 In my previous post I wrote about the life of thankfulness that...
Read MoreI urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people.- 1 Tim 2:1 In my previous post I wrote about the life of thankfulness that...
Read MoreAnd be thankful. Col. 3:15b Growing up I didn’t really know what communion meant. When I was a kid I was taught that the proper way to take communion in my church...
Read MoreWith the annunciation of the Holy Spirit the Nicene Creed completes its Trinitarian formulation. But to understand the role of the Spirit in the Trinity we have to look back into the Creed. In doing so it will be come clear that the Holy Spirit isn’t a new phenomenon but an eternal participant with the Father and the Son in the creation, maintenance, and healing of the world.
Read MoreWritten in 325 CE, and amended in 381, the Nicene Creed has been the standard of orthodoxy since its origin. Outside of the Bible, it is the single most important text of the Christian faith. Unlike the Apostle’s Creed, which is a statement of an individual’s faith traditionally recited at their baptism, the Nicene Creed is a communal affirmation, and as such it is a proclamation of worship that unites the Church under one doctrine.
Read MoreGeorge Herbert was a Welsh poet and priest born in 1593 to landed aristocracy. His mother, Magdalene Herbert, was the Gertrude Stein of the 17th century English...
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