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Heartspeak
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? Orual, Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
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What He Did
Luther: The cross was the altar on which He, consumed by the fire of the boundless love which burned in His heart, presented the living and holy sacrifice of His body and blood to the Father with fervent intercession, loud cries, and hot, anxious tears. That is the true sacrifice. Once and for all it takes away the sins of all the world and brings an everlasting reconciliation and forgiveness. It deserves to be praised to the utmost and to have every honor given to it, especially over against those other false...
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The Place of Eschatology
Christian eschatology is not some futurist projection; it is that talk about the coming of Jesus Christ which also talks of the teleological aspects of the moral field in which human agents find their identity. It has an ethic character, in that one of its functions is to inform and evaluate the church's practice rather than offer a theory of universal history...it is action ordered towards the telos of history...it is in part concerned with the manner in which God's action evokes and sustains patterns of human...
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A Good Reason to Pray for Your Pastors
Jonathan Edwards: ...making due allowance for that infirmity and corruption that may be left in the hearts of the saints, as well as through want of a due sense of their own blindness and weakness, and remaining corrutpion, whereby spiritual pride may have a secret vent this way, under some disguise, and not be discovered. If we allow that truly pious men may have a great deal of remaining blindness and corruption, and may be liable to mistakes about the marks of hypocrisy, as undoubtedly all will allow; then...
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Pride
Jonathan Edwards: Pride is the worst viper that is in the heart; it is the first sin that ever entered into the universe, and it lies lowest of all in the foundation of the whole building of sin, and is the most secret, deceitful and unsearchable in its ways of working, of any lusts whatsoever: it is ready to mix with everything, and nothing is so hateful to God, and contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, or of so dangerous consequence; and there is no one sin that does so much let in the Devil into the hearts...
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Martin Luther on the Meaning of Communion
From The Babylonian Captivity of the Church: According to its substance, therefore, the mass is nothing but the aforesaid words of Christ: "Take and eat, etc.", as if he were saying, "Behold, O sinful and condemned man, out of the pure and unmerited love with which I love you, and by the will of the Father of mercies, apart from any merit or desire of yours, I promise you in these words the forgiveness of all your sins and life everlasting. And that you may be absolutely certain of this irrevocable promise of...
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