Born Again
“Becoming a child of God, being born of God by being purified and renewed, is the clear theme this chapter opens with, as Jesus instructs...
Light of Christ
“In Genesis 1: 3 we read: “God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” God was not only making a visible creation but more...
Repentance
“What were God’s first words, having become man, in His peaching? ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ There are no hopeless...
Patterns
“…the “pattern” in the whole of Scripture is revealed in the primary pattern of Christ’s Pascha (death and resurrection). His Pascha...
Truth
“Facts are those things that are objectively verifiable—the boiling point of water, the diameter of the Earth, and so on. But even though...
Adam and Eve
“Eve and Adam decide the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is more desirable than their relationship to God. God told...
Arts
“Art, for example, being a distinctive characteristic of human personhood, by denying or even destroying all forms of the given reality...
Grace (Willingness to Receive)
“All the Christians of St. John’s time, by “receiving of His fullness,” the “grace for grace,” actually shared in what the Logos...
Self-Centeredness
“It would seem that we are back to the very beginning with the serpent in Eden—the first Gnostic?—whispering that God is not a good God...
Gospel/Good News
“The meaning of the Gospel is revealed to us precisely when we try to fulfill it. Since it’s mostly just distracted reading for us, it...