Abraham // Sufjan Stevens
“Abraham, put off on your son
Take instead the ram
Until Jesus comes”
What soul-wrenching mourning and such sweet relief to have lost your most prized one in your hands, only to gain them back again. That delicate and most humble substitute, stretching across stumps as if to say love cannot be overcome. Not then. Not now. Not ever.
I would be cautious in faulting religion instead of those who are charged with carrying it forward. If we are to be like Jesus (a person who held a system of beliefs and practices), should we not focus on living our religion more perfectly instead of ignoring those practices deemed holy by our Savior?
::insert Jordan dropping the mic::
…and there you have it folks. You can stop making more redonkulous rebuttal videos. This about sums it up.
It is one thing to love the ways of the Lord when all is fair, and quite another to hold to them in the face of discouragements and difficulties. The kiss of outward profession is very cheap and easy, but the practical clinging to the Lord, which must show itself in holy devotion to truth and holiness, is no small matter.
Blessed among women will be those who for Christ’s sake renounce all; but forgotten, and worse than forgotten, will be those who in the hour of temptation violate their conscience and turn back to the world. This morning let us not be content with the form of devotion, which may be no better than Orpah’s kiss, but may the Holy Spirit work in us a clinging of our whole heart to the Lord Jesus.
-Spurgeon
(Source: empty-and-beautiful, via whydoikeepcounting)
Father Robert Barron on the uniqueness of Jesus.
Amazed and afraid. Love it :)
(Source: acceptandembrace)
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The Resurrected Jesus Christ surrounded by Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Two Angels, by Anthonis Mor (1564)
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