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Death has been brought low, the sin of our first parent destroyed, hell plundered, resurrection bestowed, the power given us to despise the things of this world and even death itself, the road back to the former blessedness made smooth, the gates of paradise opened, our nature... Read More →

The earliest Epistles and all the Gospels had attested that Jesus was executed by the Powers (Luke 23:13, 35; 24:20; John 7:26; Acts 3:17; 4:8-10, 26; 13:27-28; 1 Corinthians 2:6-8; 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16; Mark 14:65; 15:15-20; Matthew 27:26-31; John 19:1-3; Mark 15:22-32).... Read More →

Here is the mystery, the secret, one might almost say the cunning, of the deep love of God: that it is bound to draw on to itself the hatred and pain and shame and anger and bitterness and rejection of the world, but to draw all those things on to itself is precisely the means,... Read More →