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A compelling devotional by Day1 host Peter Wallace, designed to help people of all ages connect meaningfully with God as revealed in the Psalms.
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The Threefold Nature of God
Isaiah 6:1-8; John 3:1-17
Trinity Sunday - Year B
June 07, 2009
The Rev. Dr. Fred R. Anderson (PCUSA)Trinity Sunday is on us once again. I am always grateful for it, because annually it forces me to go back and dig deeply into the mystery at the center of the Christian faith--the Trinity--and what that means about God and us. The doctrine of the Trinity itself cannot be found explicitly in scripture. Yet, it is scriptural to its core. It is the result of the church's some 250 years of reflecting on scripture and on its experience of God's self-revelation, as those encounters are recorded in scripture and the church's continuing experience of God over us, of God with us, and of God in us. Once a year it is good for us to think hard about the threefold nature of God the Bible reveals to us as the Holy Trinity.1
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The Church's Hope
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
Day of Pentecost - Year B
May 31, 2009
The Rev. Dr. Fred R. Anderson (PCUSA)They had been told to stay put,1 and so they had. Jesus had promised them another Advocate whom he would send from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who would testify on his behalf--after all, he is the Truth with a capital "T"--an advocate who would enable them to testify on his behalf, and do so truly. In addition, this Advocate would expose the world for what it was and is, with its distorted notions about sin, righteousness and judgment, and would guide them into not only further truth, but all truth, taking everything that was his and giving it to them. He had told them he was the way, the truth and the life; and they had banked their life on that.
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