The Obedience of a Christian Man

"To preach God's word is too much for half a man."

What a statement! William Tyndale, in his book listed as the title of this post

Gregory of Nazianzus 330-391

This I give you to share, and to defend all your life, the one Godhead and power, found in the three in unity, and comprising the three separately; not unequal, in substances or natures, neither increased nor diminished by superiorities or inferiorities; in every respect equal, in every respect the same; just as the beauty and the greatness of the heavens is one; the infinite conjunction of three infinite ones, each God when considered in himself; as the Father, so the Son; as the Son, so the Holy Spirit; the three one God when contemplated together; each God because consubstantial; one God because of the monarchia. No sooner do I conceive of the one than I am illumined by the splendour of the three; no sooner do I distinguish them than I am carried back to the one. When I think of any one of the three I think of him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me. I cannot grasp the greatness of that one so as to attribute a greater greatness to the rest. When I contemplate the three together, I see but one torch, and cannot divide or measure out the undivided light.

Amen and Amen!

This is my blog!!

Okay, I don't feel like spending 45 min's trying to change the fact that it says "posted by Jana Alexander" at the very end of all my posts, but my lovely wife used our same e-mail address for her great blog--flowerofgrass.blogspot.com and somehow all my posts say they were posted by her so, it is actually me.

Well, I haven't posted in an age..But, here I am alone in the wilderness posting what no one will read but me. But, journals are a good thing right? We moved to Spokane, if anyone is reading this. The first few days I went through major withdrawals from Moscow..One gets very attached to Moscow. I esp. did because I drank up to the dregs the community in Moscow because I really love people, or I really try. I went from living in the smallest town I've ever lived in to the most urban setting here. It is way different here, but we are enjoying our new world. We went hiking up around the mountains in Cor De' Alene to chop down a Christmas tree and that was a lot of fun as we were with some of the other families from the church. The mountain ranges above us were sprinkled with snow, it very much looked like powdered sugar.
My first week at the office was great, I am really liking the new job. I am reading a book called "The Holy Trinity in Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship." It is fantastic. It is a meaty book , but the chapter lengths are reasonable and well summarized. The author, Robert Letham, especially draws out the lessons we can learn from the Eastern Church and where we can grow here in the West. Did you know that in Eastern Orthodoxy, you can't have communion? There you go, they are closed communion. That, my friend, is a departure from justification by faith. They also bow down like Muslims, and love icons upon icons. However, at least they pay attention to the Holy Trinity all-the-time in their worship and probably their lives to some extent. More later,
Peace