conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

links of note

Todd said it well. It is a good thing to recall what it means to be Baptized.

We have been buried with Christ. The waters of baptism have washed over us as we died to the world. We share in Christ�s resurrection, and are reborn by the Holy Spirit. It�s a new life, with new responsibilities. We have been given much, in our way of life, in our income, in our health and our families. To whom much is given, much is required. And right now, the people of Indonesia require our help.

Cliff is talking about marriage again. It is an interesting post.

M. Scott Peck has called marriage a "monastery of two." And the Orthodox call the marriage and the home a "little church." The proper understanding of Christian marriage is that the spouses help each other rid themselves of sin and pursue Christlikeness. I submit to you that until you've stayed with the same "ol' bastard" or same "ol' nag" for something more than thirty years, you don't really have an understanding of the sort of life-giving sacrament marriage is.

Thomas is still talking about Hart's article on suffering. It is a post that is a day or three old. Sorry for the late notice.

Those who remain fascinated by death and hell, who are in fact perishing, more and more dwindle into nonbeing so that they come to resemble the one they serve. To them, the majesty of God, who is love and the fullness of life, must be wrath, sheer terror, for he abhors this ridiculous joke of a no-thing that has presumed to usurp and destroy his good creature made after the Incarnate Son. Wrath, however, is not an attribute of God, essential to his nature, and so he requires no darkness, no reprobate mass, through which to manifest this for all to see.

Posted by tripp at January 10, 2005 11:12 AM