Friday, November 9, 2007
What are the types of books in the Bible?
Old Testament
- Law
- History
- Poetry
- Prophesy
- History
- Letters
- Prophesy
Sacred Space - Daily Prayer Online
Sacred Space - Daily Prayer Online: "Something to think and pray about this week Ignatius Loyola spent the best of his energies on teaching people to pray. Before his conversion, his idea of prayer was reciting Our Father's and Hail Mary's. When he started to read the scriptures, he found that God was talking to him, especially through the stories about Jesus. He wrote about it later, 'God taught me like a schoolboy.' As the years passed, his prayer became more wordless - so does the prayer of many Christians as they mature in their spiritual life. Ignatius had such an appetite for prayer - such heart-wrenching delight in it - that he had to ration himself, because the tears of joy were affecting his sight. God was for him not a word but a touch. One of his friends recalled his going up to the roof of his house at night. 'He would sit there quietly, absolutely quietly. He would take off his hat and look up for a long time at the sky...and the tears would begin to flow down his cheeks like a stream, but so quietly and so gently that you heard not a sob nor a sigh nor the least possible movement of his body.'"
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
God Is Love
God Is Love 2: "God is Love! As such, true love -- God's love -- can be summed up in this passage of scripture: 'Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.' (1 John 4:7-11)"
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Christian Quote
"We are susceptible to heretical teachings because, in one form or another, they nurture and reflect the way that we would have it be, rather than the way God has provided, which is infinitely better for us. As they lead us into the blind alleys of self-indulgence and escape from life, heresies pander to the most unworthy tendencies of the human heart."
... C. FitzSimons Allison, The Cruelty of Heresy