Sublime

Beeley provides much discussion and several examples from the church fathers in his Unity of Christ, esp. 39, 134, 164, 193.

It is not surprising that a teacher of Christian faith would pray regularly, and it is easy to overlook the regular mentions of prayer in Lewis’s many letters over the years. “I will keep you in my prayers” sounds like a cliché, even though phrases like this appear often and regularly in his correspondence. Taken as a whole, these many references r

For reflection Genesis 22:1–19

2 Samuel 22 David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. 2He said: The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, 3 my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you sav

Thomas Boston and his friends believed that “the gospel-doctrine” had been attacked in the Marrow Controversy.

in Acts 13:1 as an example: “Among the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch of Syria were Barnabas, Simeon (called ‘the black man’),

In all of Jack’s published works, again and again we find great gems of wisdom and knowledge; passages keep appearing that leave us stunned and amazed at the great depth of comprehension that this man exhibited. In the thousands of letters of his enormous correspondence, again and again we find words of warm, compassionate advice to people all over

He proclaimed himself a strong Calvinist and delighted to discuss Reformed theology. I eventually discovered that he was having sex outside his marriage. But he was not worried about it; he was eternally secure in Christ. I

Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), the priest and humanist scholar who, as early as 1516, began preaching against clerical abuses, and whose sermons ‘from true, divine scripture’, starting in 1520, inaugurated a popular movement in Switzerland against such practices as priestly celibacy and the keeping of fasts.