One Summer day I went on a run through my town. The forecast projected the high to reach upwards of eighty-five degrees, and for some reason, I decided to go in the middle of the day when the sun was at its highest and the temperature was at its warmest. Depending on which cardinal direction […]
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Love, and do what you will (Dilige et quod vis fac). This phrase of Blessed Augustine has been perverted by many. Aleister Crowley, not only being Godless, but an active enemy of Christ, added “Love is the law under will” to fix the antinomian feel of his perverted phrase “Do as thou wilt shall be
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Once when I was a young kid, my dad and I went to a major league soccer game. At one point in the game, we bought two large fresh-squeezed lemonades. I quickly drank to the bottom of the cup, and with my last sip, I swallowed a seed. Shortly after doing so, I began to
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Scripture reveals to us that all humans are made in the image of God. As shown in 1 Corinthians 11:7, we are also made to be the glory of God. Genesis 1:27 makes it very clear that both male and female are created in His image. Genesis 9:6 states whoever sheds men’s blood will have
Many of us in the Western Church are willing to believe in the Lord, but not suffer for the Lord just as the Israelites when Moses was sent to free them from their bondage at the command of God. This applies to us in two ways. One, we cannot face the secular world due to
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Apatheia is a Greek term used by the ancient Stoics to describe a state of mind where one is not disturbed by the passions. It is translated as dispassion from a – “without,” and pathos – “suffering” or “passion.” In Philosophy, the passions are the instinctive, emotional, base drives of a human being. The Stoics
