William was very much exercised as to what occupation he should enter on graduation. His mind was not at first inclined to enter the Church, as he loved science very dearly, and more so as time went on.
Five loaves are then set before the multitudes, and broken. While the apostles are dividing them, a succession of newly created portions passes—they cannot tell how—through their hands. The loaf which they are dividing does not grow smaller and yet their hands are continually full of the pieces.
Discipleship means allegiance to the suffering Christ, and it is therefore not at all surprising that Christians should be called upon to suffer. In fact it is a joy and a token of his grace. The acts of the early Christian martyrs are full of evidence which shows how Christ transfigures for his own the hour of their mortal agony by granting them the unspeakable assurance of his presence.
O Lord my God, I wish to praise Thee; for I know that to praise Thee was the end for which I was created. Open Thou my lips to praise Thee, that I may worthily magnify Thy name.
Theology ponders the deep meaning of everyday life by seeing our lives as taking place within God’s life. There are certain moments when we just sense, almost intuitively, that what is happening is terribly significant or somehow holy—moments,
God’s beauty is not a pleasure reserved for great saints and card-carrying mystics, religious geniuses who speak in blank verse. The most tongue-tied, feet-on-the-ground believer is capable of getting a kick out of God—and needs to do so.
Westerners may find Ubuntu–an African concept of personhood—a strange word with perhaps an even stranger meaning. Emphasizing the communal and spiritual dimension of human identity, the concept of Ubuntu (pronounced oo-BOON-too) of necessity poses a challenge to persons accustomed to thinking of themselves as individuals.
These slaves from Maryland were the last that Harriet Tubman piloted out of the prison-house of bondage, and these “came through great tribulation.” Stephen, the husband, had been a slave of John Kaiger,
For me, to preach is first of all to immerse myself in the word of God, to look inside every sentence and underneath every phrase for the layers of meaning that have accumulated there over the centuries.
And pray how, I asked, does this belief in the existence of God prove along with it the existence of the human soul? For God, surely, is not the same thing as the soul, so that, if the one were believed in, the other must necessarily be believed in.