Sublime

Among serious Christians in congregations today there is a growing desire to meet together with other Christians during the midday break from work for life together under the Word. Life together is again being understood by Christians today as the grace that it is, as the extraordinary aspect, the “roses and lilies” of the Christian life (Luther).

In Hebrew, this book is called In the Wilderness.

He had also provided a rich exposition of the way this union with Christ works its way out into the Christian life in a mortification (mortificatio) and vivification (vivificatio) that are both internal (in relation to sin and self) and external in the sense that the life of the individual believer and of the community of the congregation are

Calvin says somewhere that each of us is an actor on a stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our behavior, and the reaction of God to us might be thought of as aesthetic rather than morally judgmental in the ordinary sense. How well do we understand our role? With how much assurance do

systematic theology.

Smith suggests the following tenants of moralistic therapeutic deism, which form its core beliefs: A God exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on earth. God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good