Apology Blog — Christian

Ignatius of Antioch - TRUTH HATES DELAY

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Ignatius of Antioch is a central figure in my story of faith, so I thought I'd make a shirt to encapsulate a bit of his story.  But first... Years ago, I was occasionally asked to lead Sunday and Wednesday night classes at our small, rural church.  Growing up in such an environment was wonderful, but we had no teaching in theology or Christian history.  The general idea was to take the bible and apply it to our lives.   That's great as far as it goes, but I loved history, and where things come from was important to me, so...

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What Is Man - Psalm 8

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Psalm 8 is short enough to include the whole text here, so let's read it: 1O LORD, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth!You have set your glory above the heavens.2Out of the mouth of babies and infants,you have established strength because of your foes,to still the enemy and the avenger. 3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,4what is man that you are mindful of him,and the son of man that you care for him? 5Yet you have made him a little lower...

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Trinity

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We see three men. “What are they?” we ask. “They are human beings,” we answer. Each is man, possessing the same humanity and the same human nature defined in a certain way: created, temporal, physical, rational, etc. In what they are, the three men are one. But in who they are, they are three, each absolutely unique and distinct from the others. Each man in his own unique way is distinctly a man. One man is not the other, though each man is still human with one and the same human nature and form.

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Beginning to Pray (2)

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The day when God is absent, when He is silent -
that is the beginning of prayer.
Not when we have a lot to say, but when we say to God, 'I can't live without You, why are you so cruel, so silent?'
This knowledge that we must find or die - that makes us break through to the place where we are in the Presence.

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Beginning to Pray by Anthony Bloom

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"The only question I keep asking myself in life is: what should I do at this particular moment? What should I say?
All you can do is be at every single moment as true as you can with all the power in your being -
and leave it to God to use you, even despite yourself. "

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