Posts tagged "Saint Augustine"
Augustine on the Word Becoming Flesh
Christmas / Sermons / Theology

Augustine on the Word Becoming Flesh

by Matt Schneider on Dec 26, 2012 • No Comments

Here are some poetic words from Saint Augustine’s Sermon 69: On the same words, John 1: “In the beginning was the Word, etc.” excerpted from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers edited by Philip Schaff. There are some beautiful lines here on the Incarnation—the Word of God becoming flesh—that could make this a Christmas sermon.

Do not follow the current of the flesh. For this flesh is indeed a current; for it has none abiding. As it were from a kind of secret fount of nature men are born, they live, they die; or whence they come, or whither they go, we know not.…

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In Bad Company with Christian (Criminal) Heroes
Law / Music / Relationships / Theology

In Bad Company with Christian (Criminal) Heroes

by jason redcay on Oct 1, 2012 • No Comments

I started wrestling with the idea of dual identity a few months back, having discovered ing Gerhard Forde’s A More Radical Gospel a section where Martin Luther describes simul et justus et peccator, which means simultaneously saint and sinner. Around that same time, the new NBC series Awake was coming out, and I began to see some parallels when I saw the show’s illustration of living in 2 realities at the same time. In the series, detective Britten is in a car crash along with his wife and son. After the crash Britten discovers that every time he goes to sleep…

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O Lost, And By The Winds Grieved
Literature / News / Suffering / Testimony / Theology

O Lost, And By The Winds Grieved

by Jeff Hual on Jun 29, 2010 • 1 Comment

Human suffering is an important touchstone for much of what is discussed here at Mockingbird. And as a native Pensacolian watching oil wash up on our shores every day, I am seeing suffering in my own life and in the lives of my family and friends on a scale that I had never before imagined.

As a result of this daily assault, my mind keeps turning back to some points that Steven Paulson made at the 2009 Mockingbird Conference which touch on the source of human suffering.

Dr. Paulson pointed out that long ago, Saint Augustine observed that we are more where…

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