Tag: christian
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What does it mean to be Christian?
Lately I’ve been thinking more about this question, and I think I’ve come up with an [unsatisfactory] answer that shows what I think it means to be Christian. To be Christian means that I have been bought with a price and that price is the blood of Jesus Christ which has been shed for me…
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Faith Comes by Hearing
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” What does this mean, you might ask. It means that Christian faith, a firm belief in something not absolutely provable, originates by divine revelation. It is something revealed, something given by God — not as something derived from logic and reason, but as the…
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Praying in Sanctuary
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory. For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. Ephesians 3.13-14 This post is more of a personal anecdote. Recently I’ve been praying in Anglican and…
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Labels and Love
Christianity is a religion of labels, so much so that in many ways I feel so unfree to explore in public the ultimate metaphysical question of “what is reality” or “what is truth.” If we are honest with ourselves, labels are stereotypes that undermine a culture of grace making a culture of labeling one of…
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Glory to God, Forever and Ever
Liturgy, the patterns of pubic worship in a church, is an interesting thing. For many Christians, especially evangelicals, the idea of a formalized mode of worship is an idea that is utterly foreign. Set prayer? Standing / sitting / kneeling in unison? Processions? Creeds? What are these things? Liturgy as a whole is just outside…
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To an Honest Treatment of Reality
This is what, I suppose, amounts to an honest disclosure of my struggles with my faith. Friends that know me tend tend to joke about how I tend to post “deep comments” on life, love, and death. Yet, for me, I don’t find them deep, instead, I fund them indicative of what I constantly think about, worry…
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Post 2D, Christ today and tomorrow
Where is Jesus now? The Nicene Creed tells us that Jesus, after rising from the dead Ascended into heaven, And sits at the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end. These statements show the core doctrines…
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1C What is Humanity?
What does it mean to be human? This is the question at the core of the Christian treatment of all people and, hopefully, the core of interpersonal ethics for Christians that attempt to remain true to their beliefs. Indeed it is this vision of what it means to be human that characterizes the importance of…
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To an understanding of Christianity
What is God? Who is Jesus? These were among the central questions of Christianity during the 4th century. Indeed the 4th century was pivotal for the formation of Christianity as it is known today in that the nature of the namesake of Christianity, Jesus Christ, was established. From this century emerged the Nicene Creed, one…
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What is most beautiful on earth?
What do you consider most beautiful on earth? Is it the vast size of the grand canyon? Is it the soaring heights of mountains? the peace of rolling plains? Or perhaps the cherished face of the one you love most? Or perhaps you consider the grandeur of the skies above to be the most beautiful…
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