Sermons and Biblical Studies

The name Jesus is not only light but food. It is oil without which food for the soul is dry, and salt without which it is insipid. It is honey in the mouth, melody in the ear and joy in the heart. It has healing power. Every discussion where his name is not heard is … Continue reading “NAME
OF JESUS”

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. The Bible, 2 Timothy 4:4

Holidays, relaxation, and the simple pleasure of life are as important for the mystic as they are for other people. Martin Israel

Christian mysticism is the attempt to realize in the thought and feeling the immanence of the temporal in the eternal and of the eternal in the temporal. Dean Inge

Mysticism keeps men sane. G.K. Chesterton The dark night of the soul through which the soul passes on its way to the Divine Light. John of the Cross A most sublime and sweet knowledge of God and of His attributes overflows into the understanding from the contact of the attributes of God with the substance … Continue reading “MYSTICISM”

For there is no other mystery of God, except Christ. Augustine of Hippo The simple, absolute and immutable mysteries of the divine Truth are hidden in secret. For this darkness, though of deepest obscurity, is yet radiantly clear; and, though beyond touch and sight, it more than fills our unseeing minds with splendors of transcendent … Continue reading “MYSTERY”

I see no reason why the devil should have all the good tunes. Rowland Hill Music is hateful and intolerable to the devil. I truly believe, and do not mind saying, that there is no art like music, next to theology. It is the only art, next to theology, that can calm the agitations of … Continue reading “MUSIC
AND THE DEVIL”

Music is for the soul what wind is for the ship, blowing her onwards in the direction in which she is steered. William Booth Music strikes in me a profound contemplation of the First Composer. Thomas Browne

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. Edmund Burke Mourning which is according to God’s will is an anguished heart that passionately seeks what it thirsts for, and when it fails to attain it, pursues it diligently and follows behind it lamenting bitterly. John … Continue reading “MOURNING”

State of Arizona Ditat Deus (God enriches) State of Colorado Nil sine Numine (Nothing without Providence) State of Connecticut Qui transtulit sustinet (He who transplanted still sustains) State of Hawii Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness) State of Kansas Ad astra per … Continue reading “MOTTOES,
STATE”