For a fuller treatment of this theology and how it funds both a doctrine of Scripture and theological anthropology, see my "God's Mighty Speech Acts: The Doctrine of Scripture Today" (in A Pathway into the Holy Scripture 1994, 143-97), and "Stories of the Self: Human Being, Individual ...
“The supremacy of Scripture is not a dictate imposed on us by a faceless despot. The words of Scripture are the words of Jesus, the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for his people.” “God becomes supreme in our hearts not by battering us into submission but by gently changing our...
God would do mighty things through Abraham Mary thanks God for having done mighty things for her God would bless Abraham so that his name would become a blessing Mary says in her Magnificat, “from now on all generations shall call me blessed.” Mary ends her Magnificat by alluding to God...
Father. “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1 John 3:1). When we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we become God’s children. Fathers instruct, guide, and discipline their children, but they also love to ...
Their example in the Gospel is like a seed which sprouts its blade, then strengthens it, becomes thick, and stands on its own, being a wonder and delight to the sower. It fills the unbelievers with rage at them. God promised those from among them who believe and act upright forgiveness ...
In theSeax-Wicatradition, the altar itself is always circular and may be a tree stump (if the ritual is held outdoors) or a rock, a log, or a circular table. On it stand a single white altar candle, god and goddess figures, censer, salt and water, drinking horn, sword, and the ...
Psalm 121:1-2 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:18 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud...
The sense, however, is clear; Scripture shows that, as early as the time of Abraham, a Divine intimation was given that God would, on the ground of faith simply, justify any human being throughout the world that should believe in him as Abraham did. Rabbinical scholars tell us that in ...
Reading through Rooted in Hope, I found myself flipping to different passages, wanting to chew through the Word of God and enter more deeply into it. And on days when you might not want to take time to ruminate on the Scriptures, the text holds you accountable by inviting you to take ...
In the Name of the Lord of Utterance, the Mighty! The mystic and wondrous Bride, hidden ere this beneath the veiling of utterance, hath now, by the grace of God and His divine favor, been made manifest even as the resplendent light shed by the beauty of the Beloved. I bear witness, ...