In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.” “Who is going ...
As to all who love and fear God, however such truths appear beyond their reason to fathom, yet they should keep silence before him. It is the Lord alone who made us to differ; we should adore his pardoning mercy and new-creating grace, and give diligence to make our calling and ...
to read today’s entry. I was shocked to discover the title “I Have Nothing,” based on Luke 11:6: “A friend of mine on a journey has come to me, andI have nothingto set before him.” Jesus, my friend, has come to journey with me today, and I have nothing for him. ...
Because the God who gave us Scripture makes himself known to us therein as a trustworthy God whom we can know in his Son and by his Spirit. This first point of Zanchi’sConfessioncertainly isn’t all that he has to say. In fact, there’s still 499 and one half pages left. But this...
“[H]aving heard the Scripture which says, ‘Fasting with prayer is a good thing'[Tobit 12:8].” Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, 6:12 (A.D. 202). “But they said, ‘We will not come forth: neither will we do the king’s commandment; we will die in our innocency: and he...
HE Cometh with Clouds; and Every eye shall see HIM, and they also which Pierced HIM: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of HIM. Even so, Amen.I AM Alpha and Omega, theBeginning and the Ending, Saith the LORD, which is, and which was, and which is to Come, the Al...