Showing posts with label Theology - divine love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theology - divine love. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2013

The Wrath of God as an Expression of the Love of God

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So far from God's wrath being in opposition to God's love, the wrath of God is actually an expression of his love. Michael Reeves ex...
Friday, August 2, 2013

What Do I Love When I Love My God?

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Augustine: But what do I love when I love my God? Not material beauty or beauty of a temporal order; not the brilliance of earthly light, ...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Loving People in God

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St. Augustin's God-besotted God-centeredness in the Confessions  is well known. Reading through the  Confessions , I'm struck also b...
Monday, June 3, 2013

Love (2)

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Immortal Heat, O let thy greater flame     Attract the lesser to it: let those fires,     Which shall consume the world, first make it tam...
Monday, May 27, 2013

For Love of Your Love, O Lord, I Recall the Chains from which You Released Me

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Recently I read sections 1 and 2 of book 2 of Augustin's Confessions as part of my "devotional" reading. And this portion car...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Do You Know Who You Are?

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Do you know who you are? I'm talking to you, Christians. I mean, do you really understand who you are in God's Son? Consider the ad...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Who Handed Jesus Over to Die?

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"Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy —but the Father, for love!"  ...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Twelve Lessons Learned on Vacation: Part 3

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Next I want to expand a little on this lesson among  the twelve : 1. Don't try to get out of a vacation more than it can give. Expec...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The Agony

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            Philosophers have measur’d mountains, Fathom’d the depths of seas, of states, and kings, Walk’d with a staff to heav’n, and trac...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Beautiful and the Ugly

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See Pastor Steve Brandon's post  on these two views of marriage when the going gets tough. Here we have the ugly over against the beauti...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

God is Love

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Commenting on 1 Jn. 4:16, Jonathan Edwards says this of the Spirit: The Apostle tells us that 'God is love; and he that dwelleth in lov...
Monday, July 4, 2011

Grace and Mercy Grounded in Love

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Yesterday's Lord's Day  sermon  on Eph. 2:1-10, preached by NCC pastor Andrew Fulton, provided liberating food for the dull duty-bou...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Authentic Christian Experience: A Sense of God's Love on the Heart

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"Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us"...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Christian's Duty of Holding Immediate Communion with the Father in Love

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Chapter 4 of part 1 of Owen's On Communion with God provides exhortations unto communion with God along with directions in it and obser...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Owen on How God's Love and Our Love Differ

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One more post on chapter 3 of part 1 of John Owen's classic On Communion with the Triune God .  Toward the end of this chapter, Owen sho...