Sublime

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. EPHESIANS 3:20-21

I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. 9 I will thank you forever, because of what you have done.

IN THE COMPANY OF FRIENDS In a perfect Friendship . . . each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before all the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. He is lucky beyond desert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group is together, each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funnies

I walk around the church, wondering whether Bach ever felt discouraged. However brilliant he was, his fellow parishioners probably took him for granted. Week in and week out, Bach wrote anyway, his way of glorifying God. Sometimes it was a joy. Sometimes it probably felt like a sacrifice.

The pastor today still feels a sense of God’s calling, but the blurring of divine action and the fragility of belief keep the call from being a deep well that pastors can draw from for vocational identity and direction in ministry.

Joy, for Augustine, is characterized by a quietude that is the opposite of anxiety—the exhale of someone who has been holding her breath out of fear or worry or insecurity. It is the blissful rest of someone who realizes she no longer has to perform; she is loved. We find joy in the grace of God precisely because he is the one we don’t have to prov

The so-called Creed of Athanasius, often called by its first words in Latin Quicunque vult, states that Christ is “equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead; and inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood.”

Comedy, and how he divided his allegory of consciousness into these 3 levels called Inferno, Purgatorio, and