Hip, Hip
Two cheers this morning for what some may regard as unlikely subjects. First, “60 Minutes.” Last evening the CBS news magazine ran a report on His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholmeo, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church and shepherd of some 300 million Orthodox worldwide. The Patriarch (“call me Bartholomeo,” he told the reporter) was presented as […]
Preached and Lived
Preached and Lived August/Peregrinatio 9 August 2010 Everywhere that he went the noble man preached the Gospel. And it pleased the people because his teaching was adorned by eloquence and enforced by examples of virtue…So great was his humility and that of his followers, that just as the children of this world seek honour and […]
Psalm 16:5-6 The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.
Psalm 16:5-6 The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. Yes, Lord, the lines have fallen in pleasant places, I do have a beautiful inheritance, for You are my portion, You hold my lot in […]
Take it to Heart!– The First Commandment No other gods
Take it to Heart!
Deuteronomy 32.45-47
And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to Israel, he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”