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more from Ratzinger

February 6, 2006

I’ve finished reading the first sermon in Ratzinger’s God Is Near Us, and it’s filled with powerful ideas and statements. This sermon is titled “God with Us and God among Us,” and for it Ratzinger takes as his starting point this sentence from the Nicene Creed:

By the power of the Holy Spirit…

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“not our conception but our Lord”

February 5, 2006

But what does it mean when we call this God a living God? It means that this God is not a conclusion we have reached by thinking, which we now offer to others in the certainty of our own perception and understanding; if it were just a matter of that, then this God would never be more than a human idea,…

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above the political fray?

October 5, 2005

Chri Sumberg, in an essay called “The War on Common Sense” (published in Orion), writes, “why not begin by stating what we already know: The Good Book is not a conservative text. Neither is it a liberal text. It is a spiritual text; and as such it is–or should be–above the political fray.” Though I […]

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God’s call for Christopher Columbus

October 4, 2005

The October Enjoying Everyday Life (from Joyce Meyer Ministries) has an article on the faith of Christopher Columbus. It includes some amazing quotes from Columbus: It was the Lord who put into my mind the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected […]

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Tennyson’s “Flower in the crannied wall”

September 24, 2005

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies;–
Hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower–but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

One of my favorite poems.

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more than we can imagine

August 4, 2005

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p>Paul is absolutely correct when he says that God “can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20). In contrast, our prayers tend to be weak and insignificant. Joseph didn’t dare to ask for what he finally received.…

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Jesus the realist

March 24, 2005

Jack Hayford has a great column about Jesus’ response to Thomas:

“Jesus was willing to meet Thomas exactly where he was. Realist to realist. ‘Put your hand here, Thomas. Put your finger here. Touch Me. Stop wavering in unbelief and get on board!’

“Again and again I’ve seen the hand of God reaching into the most practical details of His children’s circumstances. I’ve seen Him meet men and women in their doubt and perplexity. I’ve seen Him answer the specific prayers of honest seekers. The Lord says to us, ‘I know the things you have questions about and doubts about, and I will address them directly if you’ll ask Me to.’”

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