O my God, teach my heart where and how to seek You, where and how to find You. You are my God and You are my all and I have never seen You. You have made me and remade me, You have bestowed on me all the good things I possess, Still I do not …
Sawai Chinnawong, Genesis 9:13
Attention as a Key to Wisdom
The distractions of our lives slowly become the purpose of our lives when inattention and lack of focus reign within our souls. The more information we have, the less true knowledge we attain. The less knowledge we attain, the more confusing our life experiences become. Lacking knowledge and meaningful experience in a whirlpool of information, …
St Augustine on the Word of God
Here is St. Augustine, reflecting on the uniqueness of the Word made flesh in his book, Confessions VII.9: So you made use of a man, one who was bloated with the most outrageous pride, to procure me some of the books of the Platonists, translated from the Greek into Latin. In them I read – not, …
Word of God [Name Above All Names]
In continuing our series, "Name Above All Names," this past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I looked at one of Jesus' most unique titles in all of Scripture: Word of God. The word logos in Greek has deep roots in Hellenistic philosophical thought, but the majority of scholars agree that the most likely background here is in Jewish …
