More precisely, we can speak of Jesus Christ as he is set forth in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testaments as the archetype and exemplar of Christian identity.Heis the pattern, the standard, and the goal. A Christian is one called tofollowJesus, to beconformedto Christ. It is...
“Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.” Colossians2:17 On the other side of the cross, the people looked forward in faith to Jesus (the Messiah) and what He would do for them. All of us on this side of the cross look back in faith at what Jesus ...
“We have said elsewhere that those things are predicated Specially in the Trinity as belonging severally to each person, which are predicated relatively the one to the other, as Father and Son, and the gift of both, the Holy Spirit; for the Father is not the Trinity, nor the Son the T...
but He Who established the Church wrote nothing. Only once, in the Gospel of John, was it said of Christ that He stooped down and wrote something; but even this one time Christ wrote with his finger and on the ground. It may even be that He did ...
As the two dispensations of grace separated from each other by the advent of Jesus are called the Old and theNew Testament(Matt., xxvi, 28; II Cor., iii, 14), so were the inspired writings belonging to either economy of grace from the earliest times called books of the Old or of th...
Romans 5:8“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Examples of Bible Stories on Love : Luke 10:25-37: The Parable of the Good Samaritan Luke 15:11-32: The Parable of the Lost Son 1 Corinthians 13: Definition of Love ...
and as those who minister. Paul’s initial words invite us to see ourselves as defined by and belonging to not ourselves or our own will but to God, God’s will, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Each one of us has a life and identity shaped by many factors. But most primary and determina...
His love of God was so deep that he did not consider his own individual life to be his own – rather, he saw himself as belonging utterly and completely to God. And he wanted to be like Christ, God Incarnate, in this. He believed that his very reason for being was to emulate and ...
It is, to state the obvious, to suggest that church communities are not always as welcome and loving towards those whom they consider to be ‘strangers.’ Despite the fact that the central doctrine of the Body of Christ informs us that we should be a community where difference is present,...
“[New Testament books…] The Epistle of Jude, indeed, and two belonging to the above-named John–or bearing the name of John–are reckoned among the Catholic epistles. And the book of Wisdom, written by the friends of Solomon in his honour.” Muratorian Fragment (A.D. 200). ...