To: Lee N. Field; Dr. Eckleburg; drstevej; OrthodoxPresbyterian; CCWoody; Wrigley; Gamecock; ...
Carl Trueman, always worth reading.
A ping to hagioi of the GRPL.
2 posted on
02/18/2015 10:04:30 AM PST by
Lee N. Field
("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
To: Lee N. Field
**In light of this, I suspect that the reasons evangelicals are rediscovering Lent is as much to do with the poverty of their own liturgical tradition as anything.**
That.
3 posted on
02/18/2015 10:09:25 AM PST by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
To: Lee N. Field
The liturgical calendar comprehends and expresses the greater truth that the Alpha and the Omega participates in both the nano-second and the epochs. It is good, IMO, to see it expressed in a cyclical fashion constrained to the earth’s orbit around the sun. Repentance and faith are both a daily and a lifetime fact for those who are, by the grace of God, incorporated into the Church. Ash Wednesday, and Lent, are but small and free portions of that which the Church is given to confess throughout all time. Rather sad to see them reduced to an object of intellectual bitching.
4 posted on
02/18/2015 10:16:47 AM PST by
Fester Chugabrew
(Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
To: Lee N. Field
When Presbyterians and Baptists and free church evangelicals start attending Ash Wednesday services and observing Lent, one can only conclude that they have either been poorly instructed in the theology or the history of their own traditions, or that they have no theology and history. The author says it all.
7 posted on
02/18/2015 5:16:13 PM PST by
HarleyD
("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")
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