Tagged: easter.
February 22nd, 2012
O Lord and Master of my life!
Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power and idle talk.
But give me rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to my servant.
Yea, O Lord and King!
Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother; for thou art blessed unto ages of ages.
Amen.

A common fourth-century prayer of Lent from St. Ephrem the Syrian


∞12:40 pm, by davidlindell ∩1
[lent] [theology] [churchhistory] [easter] [prayer]
May 19th, 2011

another one of the videos from this year’s Easter service at JRA… once again, props to our creative services team.

∞10:37 pm, by davidlindell
[Easter] [video]
March 8th, 2011
Mystery is not a word I often use even though I am a theologian. Indeed, I avoid the word “mystery” because I am a theologian. To say that what Christians believe is mysterious invites the assumption that what we believe is not believable. In short, “mystery” suggests that what we believe defies reason and common sense. What we believe does defy reason and common sense, but yet I believe what Christians believe is the most reasonable and commonsense account we can have of the way things are… It is my conviction that explanations, that is, the attempt to make Jesus conform to our understanding of things, cannot help but tame the wildness of the God we worship as Christians.
Stanley Hauerwas, Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words

∞07:15 pm, by davidlindell
[theology] [jesus] [easter]
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