Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, saying, “Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” Then Isaiah said: “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little […]
In church on Sunday, we sang the song that probably causes me to come closest to that sense of longing for Immanuel, our God with us. It was hymn #56 in the Episcopal hymnal, and more commonly called “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” It is both a cry to God to come to us into […]
Part of the Creed’s statement about the Holy Spirit is that “with the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified,” which makes sense if we are to say that the Holy Spirit is God. However, I sometimes wonder if our worship is so equally distributed as the creedal statement seems to suggest.
Do we […]