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Month: December 2015

God LIKES Us – The Gospel Still Floors Me

Posted on December 31, 2015February 16, 2018 by Jacob Jones

Occasionally, I have the good sense to spend some time on Bible verses that I usually gloss over. Ephesians 1:4-5 says that God loved us before the creation of the world, chose to reckon us faultless through Christ (like, for free), and that He took great pleasure in that. There are no words to describe … Continue reading God LIKES Us – The Gospel Still Floors Me →

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A Quote from Buechner

Posted on December 20, 2015February 16, 2018 by Jacob Jones

From Telling Secrets by Frederich Buechner: “Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with, and which I believe we continue in some measure to be no matter what, are selves which still echo with the holiness of their origin. I believe that … Continue reading A Quote from Buechner →

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Universal Experience in the Time of Augustine

Posted on December 9, 2015February 16, 2018 by Jacob Jones

"To love then, and to be beloved, was sweet to me; but more, when I obtained to enjoy the person I loved, I defiled, therefore, the spring of friendship with the filth of concupiscence, and I beclouded its brightness with the hell of lustfulness . . . . My God, my Mercy, with how much … Continue reading Universal Experience in the Time of Augustine →

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