What the Bible offers is not a “works contract,” but a covenant of vocation. The vocation in question is that of being a genuine human being, with genuinely human tasks to perform as part of the Creator’s purpose for his world. The main task of this vocation is “image-bearing,” reflecting the Creator’s wise stewardship intoContinue reading “Adam & Eve: A Failure of Vocation”
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Another Look: What Matters: Baptism and Vocation
Thus they made men believe that the profession of monasticism was far better than Baptism. . . . . . . Furthermore, the precepts of God and the true service of God are obscured when men hear that only monks are in a state of perfection. For Christian perfection is to fear God from theContinue reading “Another Look: What Matters: Baptism and Vocation”
Sermon Christmas II: Returning to Our Work
Christmas II (New Year’s Day) Returning to Our Work 15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 So they went with haste and found Mary andContinue reading “Sermon Christmas II: Returning to Our Work”
Christmas II: Pic and Cantata of the Week
(Click on picture to see larger image) • • • CHRISTMAS II Bach Cantata 28, “Praise God! Now the Year Comes to an End” Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende, Das neue rücket schon heran. Gedenke, meine Seele, dran, Wieviel dir deines Gottes Hände Im alten Jahre Guts getan! Stimm ihm ein frohes Danklied an;Continue reading “Christmas II: Pic and Cantata of the Week”
Saturday Ramblings: New Year’s Eve Edition
RAMBLER OF THE WEEK You, our Internet Monk readers, are our Ramblers of the Week. Here on the verge of a new year, we prepare to ramble into 2017, and I’d like to hear what you think might be in store for you, or more broadly, what might be in store for life as you knowContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings: New Year’s Eve Edition”
Annual Review: Most-Discussed IM Posts of 2016
Annual Review Most-Discussed Internet Monk Posts of 2016 2016 was another good year, in my view, for our blog and the discussion community that reads and comments each day. Before we go month by month through the posts that you find most discussable, I want to thank all of you for supporting our work. IContinue reading “Annual Review: Most-Discussed IM Posts of 2016”
Annual Review: A renewed commitment to resistance
Annual Review 2016 A renewed commitment to resistance 2016 may prove to be either a short blip of craziness in the annals of history or the beginning of a prolonged period of craziness (God help us). Whichever it turns out to be, “crazy” is the operable word, especially when we consider the jaw-dropping political transformations that marked theContinue reading “Annual Review: A renewed commitment to resistance”
2016 Annual Review: My Favorite Album of the Year
2016 Annual Review My Favorite Album of the Year In addition to my choice for my favorite album of 2016, there are three others that deserve special mention. Let’s talk about these wonderful recordings before I gush all over my top pick. • • • William Bell, This Is Where I Live For years I have longedContinue reading “2016 Annual Review: My Favorite Album of the Year”
Annual Review: Pictures from 2016 + A Chance to Vote!
Annual Review Pictures from 2016 2016 was a fun year for me taking pictures. After using my Canon in the early part of the year I got a new camera for my birthday — an Olympus Pen-F. That provided renewed motivation, and I found lots of opportunities to take pictures around Indiana — especially through aContinue reading “Annual Review: Pictures from 2016 + A Chance to Vote!”
Christmas Eve Homily 2016
Christmas Eve Homily 2016 Christ and Caesar: The True King is Born! In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also wentContinue reading “Christmas Eve Homily 2016”
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