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The Interactive Work Of The Holy Spirit

· Fr. Michael Gillis
When the Holy Spirit fell on the disciples on the day of Pentecost, there are two miracles.  One miracle is that the disciples spoke in new languages, and the other is that the people heard the disciples speaking in their own languages.  The Holy Spirit changed not only how the disciples “declared the wonders of God,” but also how those listening heard what was declared.   We find a similar phenomenon in…

Let Your Name Be Holy: The “B” Word

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Last time we talked a little about the grammar of the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer.  We discussed how they were actually commands of a sort: third person imperatives.  We talked about the phrase, “Let your name be holy (as in heaven, so also on earth)” and how some church fathers tied this phrase to the verse in Isaiah and Romans that places the blame for God’s name being blasphemed…

George Eliot

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Kh. Krista West, in her podcast, The Opinionated Tailor, mentioned once her love for the novels by George Eliot, particularly Adam Bede. Since Bonnie and I are rather addicted to 19th century novels, we are always looking for recommendations. We went out and bought most of her novels (btw, “George Eliot” is the pen name for Mary Ann Evans Cross). I started with Middlemarch and was mesmerized. Bonnie tried to begin with…