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17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.12And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee; humbly beseeching thee that we, and all others who ...

9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in ...

The many forms of theosophy, anthroposophy, and other variations of the New Age spirituality still offer a potent and heady mix to those seeking a spiritually more exotic than what they think they know as the traditional Christian Faith. ... The Church will always have to contend with those who falsely claim to offer a more "spiritual" approach. And its ...

Christ is not just one link in the Fullness of the Godhead's series of emanations. All the Divine Fullness dwells in Him. And not only that, but the Divine Fullness dwells in Him bodily. It is not, as the Gnostics asserted, that the true Divine Nature would not deign to soil Itself with contact with the bodily; corruptible world. On ...

... for in this — in [Paul's] love for [the Colossian Church] and his spiritual agony at the thought of their danger — is his moral authority to exhort them. He has never actually met them. They are Epaphras' spiritual children. His moral authority to teach them lies in the fact of his suffering for them (see Col 1:24). For ...

Chapters in Church History, ...Puritan intolerance would have imposed a religious system as unpalatable to the mass of the people as Anglicanism was to the few.1... it called forth the famous defense of the Church of England against Geneva, The Laws of Ecclesiastical polity by Richard Hooker, the most notable Anglican scholar of the sixteenth century. 2The evangelical concern [imparted ...

Farley, Lawrence. The Prison Epistles, The Orthodox Bible Study Companion Series. (Ben Lomond, Calif.: Conciliar Press, 2003) , p. 162. Commenting on Colossians ...

18And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by ...

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Translation4 [1]And from what has been previously written, [2] I Pionius wrote it down again, after searching for it (according to revelation made known to me from the blessed Polycarp, just as I will make clear in what follows) [3] after already gathering it together when it had nearly been worn out from time, that the Lord Jesus Christ might ...

Translation3 Then, wood [1] prepared for the pyre was placed around him at once. However, when they were about to nail him to the pyre, [2] he said, "Leave me thus. For the one who granted that I remain in the fire will also grant untroubled firmness to remain in the fire apart from your nails."[1] ?????? lit. instruments. Elsewhere ...

Translation2 When the funeral pyre [1] was made ready, Polycarp removed his own clothes and loosed his girdle. [2] He was attempting to untie his own sandals; however, previously he usually did not do this himself because each of the faithful [3] always took pains who should more quickly touch his skin. For he had been adorned with every good ...

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For that is what worship is: an act. It is not primarily an "experience," although we often hear people talking about having had "a beautiful worship experience." This is a fine sentiment, but partly misses the point. God commands us to worship him, and you cannot command an experience. Like love (which is also commanded), worship may be attended by ...

Translation1 But one by the name of Quintus, [1] a Phrygian who had recently arrived from Phrygia, [2] after he beheld the wild animals became cowardly. [3] And this was the one who prevailed upon himself and even some others to go of their own accord. [4] The Proconsul, after earnestly entreating this man, cajoled him to swear an oath ...