"On Being a Theologian of the Cross" (1) "The Holy Spirit runs roughshod over your "free-will". (1) "We are more spiritual than God is." (1) "We just can't have that in the church…" (1) "What must I do?" (1) "Where can I find a gracious God?" (1) "Whoe...
as follows: At first Job, who was one of Pharaoh’s eunuchs and counselors, advised Pharaoh to have every male child murdered (Ex. i. 16). Afterward Pharaoh, having had a dream which prognosticated the birth of a helper, again consulted Job. The latter answered evasively: “Let the kin...
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things fre...
In the “Sanctification,” I gave you the specific verses from Scripture that showed you that it is by the power of the Holy Spirit that this sanctification process is done with you in this life. However, you will not be a passive robot in all of this. You have to be willing to work...
Once the Holy Spirit starts to transmit His quality of love into the very core of your personality, your job will then be to learn how to walk in that love in your words and actions with others. Actually, once the Holy Spirit starts to transmit and impart His divine love into you, it...
of reflective commentary from trusted sources. Such self-care through withdrawal from the fray is “meet and right so to do.” But unless we are contemplatives whose job is to provide for the rest of us what Jesuit activist Dan Berrigan called “large reserves of available sanity,” we can...
One of the functions of the Guide is therefore to make the Qur’an intelligible by restoring it to its original integrity and revealing its spiritual meanings. Ancient Shi’i sources report hundreds of verses of this “original Qur’an” that are not found in the version known to all. The...
Not only does this fragment excavated in Egypt show that Byzantine readings were floating around in Egypt in the 300s in a large multi-book manuscript, but this analysis shows that the editors of NA27 were, in this particular passage. seem to have been timidly averse to doing their job. ...
So we’ve seen that an understanding ofwhowe are really working for will help us be more disciplined in how we work. But now, in verse 8, Paul wants to show uswhatwe are working for. In Ephesians 6:8, we get to the details that we all want to know about any job. What is the...
Study:How does God’s answer to Job shed light on the problem of evil? How much do we know and not know about what might be going on behind the scenes? Apply:ReadJob 42:3.How does Job’s response illuminate what we should recognize about our own position?