By John W. Kleinig I am fascinated by the slogans that people wear on their sweatshirts. They tell us a lot about them and their convictions. There are two that caught my eye at an airport some years ago. The first, which has since become quite common, was: “My body, my choice!” The second, which is far too long to become popular, was even more telling. It ran: “Your body may be a temple, but mine’s an amusement park!” These slogans show how many people regard their bodies in our so...| The Lutheran Witness
The September issue provides a Lutheran view of the theology of the body. From the President: Our Bodies: Created Good, Redeemed for EternityLife in the Church Year: Holy Cross Day & St. Michael and All Angels: Home Altars and Blackberry Crumble Features: Gifted Bodies: A Lutheran Theology of the Body — John W. KleinigA New Creation: The Image of God in a Broken World — Christopher S. EsgetA GPS for Difficult Conversations: Speaking Out With Compassion and With God’s Word — Beverly Ya...| The Lutheran Witness
by Matthew C. Harrison There is a near universal human conviction that somehow something of human consciousness lives beyond death, whether a continuation of the human person absent a body, or absorption of the individual consciousness into some “stream of consciousness,” or a higher final state of oneness and being with “god.” Genuine Marxists or Communists are an exception. As “materialists,” they limit all reality to what is material in nature. Thus no soul. No heaven. No aft...| The Lutheran Witness
It’s interesting how some Bible verses get emphasised in one era, are then almost forgotten about in the next, before making a bit of a comeback. 1 Cor 6:19-20 fits into this category: “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received […] The post Towards a Theology of Personal Development (4): Because the Body is a Temple… appeared first on Brian Harris.| Brian Harris
And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn (Luke 2:6-7). Jesus was born when "the time came." The time came, not just for the fulf| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
The Beginning. It matters. It matters a lot. Our origins are important. We have to talk about how things started. Where did we come from? How did we get here? Genesis was a message to the people of Israel communicated through Moses. It was book of stories that showed us how the Lord got things […] The post For Starters, Substance Matters appeared first on GGWO Church Baltimore.| GGWO Church Baltimore
Father Deacon Ananias's paper delivered at the 2024 Orthodox MontaNIKA conference at Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte, MT.| Patristic Faith
“Who can fathom the Spirit of the LORD, or instruct the LORD as his counselor? Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught h…| Reflections