Tag: justification
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Sunday, 6-12-2016
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes for 6-12-2016. This week we will read about the confrontation and consequences that King David experienced after his sin of adultery with Bathsheba, killing Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, and then taking Bathsheba as his own wife. The second reading is from the letter to the Galatians, which reminds us…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Sunday, 5-22-2016
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes for 5-22-2016. This week examine a reading from Proverbs and learn something about the Person of Jesus Christ. In the second reading we see how God uses trials in the life of a believer to make them grow in their faith and trust in Him. In the Gospel…
Study Notes for the Sunday Mass, October 27, 2013 – 30’th Sunday in Ordinary Time
It was the classical dark and stormy night as I (Jim) flew the instrument approach into snowy Saranac Lake, New York with two friends nestled warmly in the seat behind me one night in March. As I made the necessary turns and altitude changes, I manipulated the aircraft’s radar system downwards such that it revealed…
The Role of Weakness in Spiritual Formation
The Role of Weakness in Spiritual Formation Reflections by Christy Hill, Ph.D. Who wants to feel weak? Who enjoys bumping up against one’s own inadequacies? Why would I desire to get in touch with the many times (a day) I don’t live up to my own standards, let alone God’s? Isn’t the Christian life supposed…
John Wesley’s Doctrine of Christian Perfection
John Wesley’s Doctrine of Christian Perfection By James M. Hill The Problem: Can Justified Christians Achieve Perfection Through a Sudden Working of the HOly Spirit in Their Lifetimes and Subsequently Live in Sinless Perfection? Because God is perfectly holy, he cannot have fellowship with unrighteous, fallen people who descended from the seed of Adam after…
A Quick Look at Justification
A Quick Look at Justification By Jim Hill The subject of justification was one of the things that the former Catholic priest Martin Luther protested against the Roman Catholic Church when he nailed his thesis to the door of the Cathedral in Wittenberg, Germany. Link: http://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html Hence the name for the church that was formed…