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1 posted on 01/27/2004 7:59:20 AM PST by Mr. Silverback
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BreakPoint/Chuck Colson Ping!

If anyone wants on or off my BreakPoint Ping List, please notify me here or by freepmail.

2 posted on 01/27/2004 8:00:05 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Pre-empt the third murder attempt-- Pray for Terry Schiavo!)
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I am somewhat chary of getting moral guidance from Chuck Colson.

As a Christian I am compelled to forgive Chuck Colson. I am not required to accept his guidance. Particularly in view of his rather dismal past.
3 posted on 01/27/2004 8:09:43 AM PST by tcuoohjohn (Follow The Money)
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(This is the oldest surviving portrait of St. Augustine, from the Lateran in Rome in the sixth century.)

The City of Man is not our true home. No, our true home is in the City of God. And it is to that city that we owe our affections and our ultimate loyalty.

Life of St. Augustine of Hippo

5 posted on 01/27/2004 8:17:58 AM PST by NYer ("One person and God make an army." - St. Teresa of Avila)
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The best citizens of the City of Man are those who remember that their true citizenship is in the City of God.

I am wrestling with an issue that relates to this. I am puzzling through why there is so much emphasis in preaching and writing that focuses on how being a Christian will make my life better...better health, better relationships, better success. And yet, there is very little emphasis on how being a Christian will make my community and world better because I am living in my community and world as part of the Kingdom of God (He is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords) and functioning as His ambassador...calling people to return to the Kingdom. People have abandoned His Kingdom, even denied its existence, and they rebel against it. But they are still in the "Universal Kingdom" though not part of the "Heavenly Kingdom" which can only be entered by faith in Jesus Christ.

The result? The world, in general, is worse off for it...and is heading downhill, picking up speed with every passing day.

9 posted on 01/27/2004 8:29:55 AM PST by LiteKeeper
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bttt
13 posted on 01/27/2004 8:36:47 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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Very good article.
18 posted on 01/27/2004 8:43:02 AM PST by livius
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The City of God is becoming increasingly more popular in American Christian circles as the Christian church seeks to renew the urban areas of this country and our increasingly global/urban world. I recommend The City of God to anyone who hasn't read it. The first couple hundred pages may seem slow as Augustine is having to debunk polytheism with reasons that are patently obvious to most modern-day Westerners (but not ancient Romans) be they Christian or not, but after that the book's practical applications for Christians in our society are fascinating.
27 posted on 01/27/2004 10:07:48 AM PST by Texas_Dawg (A vote for the Constitution Party is a vote for Paul Krugman and Al Qaeda.)
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Bump for later read!
29 posted on 01/27/2004 10:13:55 AM PST by k2blader (Folks who deny the President's proposal is an amnesty are being intellectually dishonest.)
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Memorial of St. Augustine is supressed by the Sunday liturgy. BTTT on 08-28-05!


60 posted on 08/28/2005 8:23:24 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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American Catholic’s Saint of the Day

August 28, 2007
St. Augustine
(354-430)

A Christian at 33, a priest at 36, a bishop at 41: many people are familiar with the biographical sketch of Augustine of Hippo, sinner turned saint. But really to get to know the man is a rewarding experience.

There quickly surfaces the intensity with which he lived his life, whether his path led away from or toward God. The tears of his mother, the instructions of Ambrose and, most of all, God himself speaking to him in the Scriptures redirected Augustine’s love of life to a life of love.

Having been so deeply immersed in creature-pride of life in his early days and having drunk deeply of its bitter dregs, it is not surprising that Augustine should have turned, with a holy fierceness, against the many demon-thrusts rampant in his day. His times were truly decadent—politically, socially, morally. He was both feared and loved, like the Master. The perennial criticism leveled against him: a fundamental rigorism.

In his day, he providentially fulfilled the office of prophet. Like Jeremiah and other greats, he was hard-pressed but could not keep quiet. “I say to myself, I will not mention him,/I will speak in his name no more./But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart,/imprisoned in my bones;/I grow weary holding it in,/I cannot endure it” (Jeremiah 20:9).

Comment:

Augustine is still acclaimed and condemned in our day. He is a prophet for today, trumpeting the need to scrap escapisms and stand face-to-face with personal responsibility and dignity.

Quote:

“Too late have I loved you, O Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! Too late I loved you! And behold, you were within, and I abroad, and there I searched for you; I was deformed, plunging amid those fair forms, which you had made. You were with me, but I was not with you. Things held me far from you—things which, if they were not in you, were not at all. You called, and shouted, and burst my deafness. You flashed and shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors and I drew in breath—and I pant for you. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for your peace” (St. Augustine, Confessions).



61 posted on 08/28/2007 2:37:07 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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