Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate….
Russian Proverb: Dwell on the past…lose an eye… Forget the past…lose both eyes
Don’t dig up the past! Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye… Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes. — Russian proverb From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, vol. 1 (New York: Harperennial, 1976) xviii
C.S. Lewis on the rightful king and a great campaign of sabotage
Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed...and is call us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
Title: Feasts, Seating, and Invitations: How to Advance God’s Way?
Jesus eats with sinners and publicans by Alexandre Bida. Two virtues that characterized the ministry of Jesus Christ were humility and unconditional love. The Lord also taught His followers to display these virtues in their own lives through the parables of taking the lower seat and inviting the least, lost, and lowly of the world in Luke … Continue reading Title: Feasts, Seating, and Invitations: How to Advance God’s Way?
Clement of Alexandria…the Father Seeks His Creatures and Heals their Transgressions
...God the Father seeks His creature, and heals his transgression....