Entries for August 2, 2009

Prayer of Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow
My Lord, I know what I ought to ask Thee,Thou and thou alone knows my needs.
Thou lovest me more than I am able to love Thee.
Of Father, grant unto me, Thy servant, all which I cannot ask.
For a cross I dare not ask, nor for consolation; I dare only to stand in Thy presence.
My heart is open to Thee.
Thou seest my needs of which I may an unaware.
Behold and lift me up!
In Thy presence I stand awed and...

Im_A

I have attempted multiple times to engage the Staff in a reasonable discussion on the removal of Universalism from orthodoxy on the basis of its supposed inconsistency with the Nicene Creed (which I have definitively defended, by showing that even Augustine declared Universalists orthodox 30+ years after the expanded edition of the Nicene Creed was formed in 381), and have at every point found nothing but disrespect and irrationality.

I am truly at a loss. I don't know who to ask about...

Tissue

I realized that being Christian would not really change the world I live in. I had the same code of morals that a traditional Christian had- I was respectful, kind, considerate, and always tried to help people around me. Because of how I lived my life, I thought about how being Christian [or in my case... considering not being Christian] would not change the life that I was living. However, even though being Christian would not change the world that I lived in, it would change the world which I...

imissJesus

Sunday, August 02, 2009, 7:35 a.m. – I woke to this song:

Be near me, Lord Jesus!
I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever
And love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children
In Thy tender care
And take us to heaven
To live with Thee there.

Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Jeremiah 24:

Quote:

Two Baskets of Figs
1 After Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the craftsmen

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Christsfreeservant

My Family-in-God,
I wrote this on the back of a piece of sheet music for guitar (I am compiling a huge library of the best music ever written, for the generations to come), on a city bus, almost verbatim. New Braunfels is a small city about 30 miles northeast of San Antonio. Please enjoy. Pray, pray, pray. Love, Ed.

Edward Eiland, M.S.W.
304 Blanco Road
San...

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