Monthly Archive: December 2008

Dec
23

Christmas: A time to keep silent?

Merry Christmas all! Hope you have a wonderful time with friends or family over Christmas. And I hope that Christ is all the more beautiful to you at this time. Paul Helm has written a great post about the incarnation this Christmas which I’d highly recommend. With his typically brilliant biblical and philosophical presentation I …

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Dec
19

John Donne, Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God

Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest,My Soule, this wholsome meditation,How God the Spirit, by Angels waited onIn heaven, doth make his Temple in thy brest.The Father having begot a Sonne most blest,And still begetting, (for he ne’r begonne)Hath deign’d to chuse thee by adoption,Coheire to his glory, and Sabbaths endlesse rest;And as …

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