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Connecting Glory and Epiphany
How does the theme of glory that predominates in Epiphany fit with the large amount of space devoted to the Sermon on the Mount during the season? It all depends on what one means by glory. The “g... -
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The Glory of Man & the Glory of God
What resonance does the word glory have in today’s English language? How often is it used, and with what meaning? The adjective glorious is familiar enough—we might say that we saw a “glorious” sunset... -
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The Glory of What We’re Meant to Be
Elisabeth Elliot once stayed in the farmhouse of a Welsh shepherd and his family high in the mountains of North Wales. She stood watching one misty summer morning as the shepherd on horseback herded t... -
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The Glory Being Revealed To Us
In Romans 8:18, Paul describes the future of those who persevere in the faith: “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.... -
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The Eternal Weight of Glory: The Shadow of Our Future Selves
In this short excerpt, the scholar and Anglican clergyman N.T. Wright discusses the famous “weight of glory” passage in 2 Cornthians 4:17: For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an ... -
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God’s Glory and a Surpassing Beauty
God’s “glory”: the phrase means, no doubt, that when people eventually see God the sight is astonishingly bright and dazzling. But beyond that it also means that it is surpassingly lovely and beautifu... -
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Agony into Glory
They say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. -
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Presenting the Glory of God
Speakers and writers must present the glory of God as clearly and compellingly as human language will permit. Otherwise both preacher and people will be reduced to dreaming little dreams and attemptin... -
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Seeing (and not Seeing) God’s Glory
I remember taking my youngest son to one of the national art galleries in Washington, DC. As we made our approach, I was so excited about what we were going to see. He was decidedly unexcited. But I j... -
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Beethoven is Everything
The renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini once led a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in London. His mastery and the orchestra’s precision resulted in thunderous applause from the audience. At ... -
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The Light that Enlightens Them
In a sermon delivered at his home church (Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill, North Carolina), Christian ethicist Stanley Hauerwas turns his attention to the topic of glory: Our glory, therefore... -
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Foolishness to the Greeks
Nevertheless, what was shameful, even odious, to the critics of Christ, was in the eyes of his followers most glorious. They had learnt that the servant was not greater than the master, and that for t... -
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The Gloryscope
Sadly, many of us live this way every day even though God has designed the world in which we live to be a gloryscope. What does this term mean? Just as a telescope points you to the stars and magnifie... -
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Praying One Shovelful at a Time
Richard J. Foster tells a story about his youth, working among the Inuit people of Kotzebue, Alaska. He found that the Inuit people he was living among “had a deep sense of the wholeness of life” with... -
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S.D.G.
If you’re familiar with Bach, you may know that at the bottom of his manuscripts, he wrote the initials, “S. D. G.” Soli Deo Gloria, which means “glory to God alone.” What you may not know is that at ... -
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The Purpose of Music
Johann Sebastian Bach said, “All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul’s refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hub-bu... -
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One of the Great Ironies of Sin
One of the great ironies of sin is that when human beings try to become more than human beings, to be as gods, they fall to become lower than human beings. To be your own God and live for your own glo... -
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Christopher Parkening’s Search For Happiness and Purpose
Considered perhaps the greatest guitarist alive, Christopher Parkening appeared to have it all. Signed to an international recording deal as a teenager, Parkening traveled across the world playing bea... -
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The Agony & The Ecstasy
During the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto broke his right knee while competing in the floor exercise. At the time, Japan and the Soviet Union fielded the world's ... -
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Remember You are Only a Man
If you were to travel back in time to the city of Rome (either during the Republic or the Empire), you may have had the opportunity to witness the Triumph, a colossal spectacle in which the greatest m... -
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God loves to use those that the world deems
God loves to use those that the world deems too small, too weak, too insignificant to make a difference. As Francis Schaeffer wrote: Consider the mighty ways in which God used a dead stick of woo... -
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A Runner Misses the Forest for the Trees
The author and pastor Louie Giglio isn't the type of runner who enjoys the scenery—he's just trying to survive his workouts. And when he's running in freezing rain? He's barely thinkin... -
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The Speed of Light
Light flies. If you don’t believe me, go outside tonight, crank up the family car, and try to race the beam streaming from the headlights to the end of the driveway. Light is fast—really fast—travelin... -
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The Truth They Were Hiding
Many have heard of the polymath and famous atheist Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), whose career as a public intellectual touched on a variety of disciplines, including philosophy (he is considered one o... -
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A Strange Exaltation
While summarizing the work of Joel Marcus, professor Lauren Winner describes the irony that in crucifixion, the victim is literally elevated above the rest of the crowd: As Joel Marcus explains, this... -
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He is Coming: A Triumphal Entry
Just under 80 years ago, a crowd gathered on a humid August day to commence what was to be an unparalleled event for its time. Hundreds of thousands of spectators, police officers, and soldiers gather... -
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To Glorify is to Unconditionally Serve
You’re glorifying something when you find it beautiful for what it is in itself. Its beauty compels you to adore it, to have your imagination captured by it. This happened to me with Mozart. I listene... -
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"Remember: You are Human."
When Julius Caesar returned to Rome after many years of fighting its battles abroad, he planned great festivities and triumphal processions to celebrate his victories over Gaul, Egypt, Pontos, and Afr... -
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Building for Glory and Good
I love watching young boys and girls build things with Legos. Their small, creative masterpieces cannot help but reflect their image-bearing nature and remind us we were all made to make things. When ... -
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His Stigma became His Glory
Sociologist Erving Goffman wrote in his classic study Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity that the term stigma originated with the ancient Greeks, roughly during Jesus’ tim...
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- Taking A Leap Of Faith (10)
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- The Work of the Holy Spirit (10)
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Search by Reference
Genesis
- Gen 1 (108)
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- Gen 3 (45)
- Gen 4 (16)
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Exodus
- Exod 1 (8)
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- Exod 3 (62)
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- Exod 34 (11)
- Exod 35 (5)
- Exod 40 (2)
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
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1 Kings
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1 Chronicles
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Nehemiah
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (27)
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- Ps 34 (87)
- Ps 36 (1)
- Ps 37 (40)
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- Ps 40 (10)
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- Ps 46 (62)
- Ps 48 (1)
- Ps 49 (4)
- Ps 50 (5)
- Ps 51 (49)
- Ps 52 (1)
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- Ps 55 (10)
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Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
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- Prov 3 (96)
- Prov 4 (33)
- Prov 5 (5)
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- Prov 7 (1)
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- Prov 11 (23)
- Prov 12 (19)
- Prov 13 (8)
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- Prov 18 (38)
- Prov 19 (28)
- Prov 20 (9)
- Prov 21 (13)
- Prov 22 (30)
- Prov 23 (4)
- Prov 24 (9)
- Prov 25 (13)
- Prov 26 (10)
- Prov 27 (30)
- Prov 28 (12)
- Prov 29 (11)
- Prov 30 (5)
- Prov 31 (31)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (40)
- Isa 2 (7)
- Isa 5 (6)
- Isa 6 (37)
- Isa 7 (10)
- Isa 9 (35)
- Isa 11 (7)
- Isa 12 (2)
- Isa 14 (4)
- Isa 21 (1)
- Isa 25 (8)
- Isa 26 (19)
- Isa 28 (7)
- Isa 29 (6)
- Isa 30 (43)
- Isa 32 (3)
- Isa 33 (4)
- Isa 35 (5)
- Isa 37 (1)
- Isa 40 (91)
- Isa 41 (39)
- Isa 42 (20)
- Isa 43 (53)
- Isa 44 (5)
- Isa 45 (12)
- Isa 46 (4)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (9)
- Isa 49 (16)
- Isa 50 (4)
- Isa 51 (2)
- Isa 52 (3)
- Isa 53 (71)
- Isa 54 (6)
- Isa 55 (88)
- Isa 56 (4)
- Isa 57 (8)
- Isa 58 (47)
- Isa 59 (7)
- Isa 60 (10)
- Isa 61 (30)
- Isa 62 (1)
- Isa 64 (17)
- Isa 65 (11)
- Isa 66 (5)
- Isa 85 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Malachi
Matthew
- Matt 1 (21)
- Matt 2 (35)
- Matt 3 (11)
- Matt 4 (54)
- Matt 5 (170)
- Matt 6 (180)
- Matt 7 (83)
- Matt 8 (11)
- Matt 9 (19)
- Matt 10 (33)
- Matt 11 (55)
- Matt 12 (21)
- Matt 13 (38)
- Matt 14 (26)
- Matt 15 (11)
- Matt 16 (41)
- Matt 17 (8)
- Matt 18 (68)
- Matt 19 (21)
- Matt 20 (17)
- Matt 21 (21)
- Matt 22 (30)
- Matt 23 (54)
- Matt 24 (20)
- Matt 25 (95)
- Matt 26 (22)
- Matt 27 (11)
- Matt 28 (39)