So Peter and John and James, maybe they were the first of the Modern Christians. They came down from the mountain where they had seen the Lord transfigured before their very eyes, His clothing made startlingly, impossibly white in an age before Clorox, they had heard the voice of their God speaking to them as […]
Archive for holiness
Tags : blinded, Christ the irritant, holiness, laundry, New Year's Eve, schedule, sing, superbowl, Times Square
What are the signs that this day is holy to the Lord? We celebrate the mass on Sundays because the commandments tell us to, saying “remember the Sabbath and keep it holy,” but is it holy only because God says so? I think that is a smashingly good reason, by the way, but it is […]
Tags : confidence, expansion, faith, holiness, joy, limitation, memory, sabbath, senses, word of god
Blessed are a lot of folks. Blessed are the peacemakers, but not right now. Right now the peacemakers are derided as weak, as out of touch, as unpatriotic. There is a movement by some lovely if a little naïve people to start a US Department of Peace with the idea that if spent as much […]
Tags : Agnes, beatitudes, blessed, blessed are the dead, Children of God, dead, Department of Peace, depravity, holiness, Mardi Gras, Meek, Mother Teresa, New Orleans, peace
To Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. You know what a mediator is, right? We all know what a mediator is. Especially here in Sonoma County, the headquarters of mediated settlements. Walk down the corridors of our halls of justice sometimes and you will see little clutches of people, gathered in twos and threes […]
Tags : beast, bondage to sin, common ground, confessional, covenant, cutting, heaven, holiness, Lutheran, mediate, mediator, negotiate, new life, purity, sacrificed
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