This was the next great schism in the modern Christian Church, and though it started in the Protestant churches, it crossed into the Roman Catholic Church as well.
Category: Understandding Scripture
Does God Allow Bad Things? / Spiritual Meditation
God grants us freedom to rebel against his original design, yet even as we do so, we end up ironically serving his eventual goal of restoration.
Only Children Enter the Kingdom / Spiritual Meditations
When Jesus said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven,” what did he mean?
God Wouldn’t Want Someone Like Me / Spiritual Meditations
In all my years of ministry, it might be one of the hardest conversations that I’ve ever had with someone. Walking up the stairs of this house for the first and only time, the smell and the screaming were something terrible. I felt as if I had been transported into the middle of the film “The Exorcist”.
Jesus, Our Link to God / Spiritual Meditations
Jesus reestablished the original link between the seen and unseen worlds and revealed a newly intimate side to God and his point of view.
God’s Restraint / Spiritual Meditations
Why doesn’t God intervene to rectify various earthly dilemmas? Philip Yancey presents a thought-provoking image of God’s perspective as a partial answer to that question.
Does it Matter What You Think about the Holy Spirit? /Spiritual Meditations
What you do and how you live are absolutely vital. Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning. But what you believe determines how you act.
Your Unity With “the Least of These” / Spiritual Meditations
Jesus’ solidarity with the “the least of these” plants him among the prophets (Matthew 25: 40). Jeremiah and Isaiah say the measure of a society is how it treats its least powerful. Jesus entered into commonality with the poor, oppressed and suffering.
Jesus’ Pre-Easter Rescue / Spiritual Meditations
Jesus’ rescuing love sets the standard for Christian holiness & transfigures the lives of those who are fellow workers with God.
Why the Magi Brought Frankincense and Myrrh / Spiritual Meditations
Fire and smoke represented the presence of the Lord as the Israelites travel through the dessert, worshiped in the Temple, and recognized the Messiah.
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