Category: Theology
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"Wholesome" Christianity
What do you think about the word “wholesome?” Can a person be wholesome? What if someone mentioned that they wouldn’t…
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Fourfold Benediction
Here is the benediction we have been using the last couple of weeks at Theophilus: We have been washed in…
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Thoughts on the Sacraments
Some of my old acquaintances know that I’m in a different space now. If you knew me from school, or…
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The Symbolism of Baptismal Vestments
From Alexander Schmemann, Of Water and the Spirit, (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1974), p. 74-75. “We know already that the…
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Nouwen quote on Eucharist
Eucharist is recognition. It is the full realization that the one who takes, blesses, breaks, and gives is the One…
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"Eucharist in the Youniverse"
Len Sweet tweeted: @lensweet Some churches now offer hosts that are round, triangular, square, wholemeal, white, gluten free, low fibre,…
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Sermon on Luke 3:7-18 (Advent 3 C)
Zephaniah 3:14-20: 14Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!…
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Reading the Bible with the Church Fathers
From Ancient Evangelical Future… 1. The New Testament authors clearly applied Old Testament texts in ways that departed seriously from…
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Greater Than Putting Flowers on a Grave
From the Ekklesia Project: And while a decoration of a grave may dwell on our loss, All Saints’ Day sharpens…
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Mystery – by Charlie Hall
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A69Hj3ISMSo This is one of the most creative attempts at a worship music video I’ve seen in a while. The…