Humanism: The inability to move beyond reason, to faith, is a disability caused by a stubborn mind and a hardened heart. It results in spiritual atrophy and, eventually, death.
Easter is "World Humanism Day", the one day when the only effective vaccine against unbelief is delivered to all mankind!
April 10, 2013
Links in a Chain
Just in case I begin believing it’s all about me...
St. Mary's Church is located in old East Berlin and claims to have held Sunday worship every week since it was built in the mid 1200s...even during the reign of atheist communism. I wandered the aisles and read the countless names on the walls...the faithful who prayed and labored to ensure the Gospel would reach Lee Thompson some 700 years late...r. I sat in one of the pews and felt as though I might be invading the sacred space of saints who came before me.
A hundred years before the building of this blessed church Bernard of Clairvaux was busy founding 163 monasteries throughout Europe. He wrote several hymns, including
Of Him Who did salvation bring,
I could forever think and sing:
Arise, ye needy, He’ll relieve;
Arise, ye guilty, He’ll forgive.
To shame our sins He blushed in blood;
He closed His eyes to show us God:
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show.
Ask but His grace, and lo, ’tis given!
Ask, and He turns your hell to heaven;
Though sin and sorrow wound my soul,
Jesus, Thy balm will make it whole.
Hmmm! Perhaps a little spiritual humility is in order…?
St. Mary's Church is located in old East Berlin and claims to have held Sunday worship every week since it was built in the mid 1200s...even during the reign of atheist communism. I wandered the aisles and read the countless names on the walls...the faithful who prayed and labored to ensure the Gospel would reach Lee Thompson some 700 years late...r. I sat in one of the pews and felt as though I might be invading the sacred space of saints who came before me.
A hundred years before the building of this blessed church Bernard of Clairvaux was busy founding 163 monasteries throughout Europe. He wrote several hymns, including
Of Him Who did salvation bring,
I could forever think and sing:
Arise, ye needy, He’ll relieve;
Arise, ye guilty, He’ll forgive.
To shame our sins He blushed in blood;
He closed His eyes to show us God:
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show.
Ask but His grace, and lo, ’tis given!
Ask, and He turns your hell to heaven;
Though sin and sorrow wound my soul,
Jesus, Thy balm will make it whole.
Hmmm! Perhaps a little spiritual humility is in order…?
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