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"No one who has not learned to be traditional can dare to innovate." -Oliver O'Donovan
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Mark Aarstad ☩
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Mark Aarstad ☩
@MarkAarstad
Danielle's husband and father to Hawk, Bryn, and Lena (retweets ≠ endorsements)
Philadelphia, PA เข้าร่วม Aralık 2009
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Mark Aarstad ☩ รีทวีตแล้ว
Watching sermon clips from popular “preachers” on social media and then jumping into the comments section is … something I shouldn’t do.
#HotterMess
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Mark Aarstad ☩ รีทวีตแล้ว
The Christian tradition refuses to skip Friday or Saturday on the way to Sunday. The empty tomb is not the cancellation of the cross, and the resurrection does not erase the silence of the grave. Any spirituality that hurries you past the loss, or past the long waiting that follows it, has not learned its Lord. Resurrection meets you on the other side of an accepted death, not in place of one.
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@Jonathan_Black_ I’d love to hear @DaleMCoulter @chrispalmer and @markchironna engage this, specifically talking about a (evolving?) Pentecostal understanding of “Evangelical” in the U.S.
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In 1927 the General Council of the Assemblies of God debated changing its name to “The Pentecostal Evangelical Church.” From 1917 they described the purpose of their magazine, The Weekly (later, Pentecostal) Evangel, as “Evangelical, Pentecostal and Missionary.” It’s continuity.
Dale M. Coulter@DaleMCoulter
Interesting that AG most identifies as evangelical. I blame all the AG scholars who told them they were evangelicals plus tongues
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Mark Aarstad ☩ รีทวีตแล้ว
The modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority.
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"Lack of [God's] felt presence isn't absence." @MiroslavVolf
... a wonderful word for my Pentecostal brothers and sisters!
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“…you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.”
#CSlewis #ThatHideousStrength
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Pastoral/preaching thought:
All history is, on some level, editorial.
This is crucial to remember when we tell our stories (+ others’!).
What details are we leaving out?
What complexities are we over-simplifying?
Do our “edits” serve our agenda, to the hurt of others?
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@markchironna This content was my formal introduction to the work of Maximus via a dear friend (Chris Green) years ago. Helped me push back against Nietzschean “Übermensch” preaching on that very text.
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Gethsemane shows the Incarnate Word under the weight of dread. Mark 11:43 uses, "he began to be distressed and troubled", in the Greek, this is language stronger than ordinary grief, suggesting a man seized by consternation. Maximus the Confessor, reading this scene against the Monothelites (those who erroneously believed the God-Man had only one will - that one being divine - when in truth he had two, divine and human), insisted that the agony was not pretended. Christ's "natural human will" (as Maximus referred to it), assumed in full, truly recoiled from death, and yet was brought into concord with his divine will without coercion. The shuddering soul is the very terrain on which the two wills meet and are reconciled. It is not a Christological embarrassment but a Christological necessity.
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Mark Aarstad ☩ รีทวีตแล้ว
Gregory Nazianzen’s axiom governs any theology of troubled souls: what has not been assumed has not been healed. If Christ did not take to himself the experience of being inwardly thrown, dismayed, bewildered by the weight of what presses upon the soul, then that region of human life remains outside the scope of redemption. The hypostatic union is not a filter that admits only composed emotions. The Logos took to himself the full register of blameless human pathos, and consternation belongs unmistakably within that register.
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I’m learning that there’s a hidden grace in my failures: the more grievous my failure, the more reluctant I am to comment when others seem to doing likewise.
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“…so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” (Matthew 10:16, NRSVue)
Let’s not conflate Xian humility with naivety. Critical thinking skills are integral to godly discernment.
Asking hard (qualified) questions—w/gentleness + respect— moves us deeper into truth/reality.
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Alleluia! Christ is risen!
With the Apostles, we boldly declare the resurrection’s historic veracity AND its far-reaching implications. He has made ALL THINGS new!
Easter sermons are not legal briefs or debate club fodder—they are life-giving prophetic declarations.
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Deeply grateful for the breadth and depth of wisdom available to us in the one holy catholic and apostolic church.
Holy days like Good Friday can be challenging for Americans to navigate well—our ancient community helps us…
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Not unlike Christmas, the sermons & pontifications of our preachers as we navigate Holy Week are especially revealing.
Stay prayerful.
Be discerning & vigilant.
Keep your eyes fixed on the magnificent glory of the Father, Son & Spirit revealed in Jesus.
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WHAT IF we thought of the thief on the cross, NOT as an example of last-minute conversion, but one who repents as soon as he sees Jesus for who he truly is? Rather than the lowest bar for salvation, he’s an example of immediacy of faith…?
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Mark Aarstad ☩ รีทวีตแล้ว
Let’s get the baseball ABS challenge system in other areas of life
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People want a Messiah who delivers, but a Messiah who rules? Not so much.
Deliverance from oppression cannot be detached from the corresponding responsibility to bow our knees before the Deliverer.
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Passionate praise can be beautiful—and Jesus deserves it—but a failure to come to terms w/Jesus’ lordship (“he is a prophet”) sets up passionate condemnation in a short span of time.
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The Church/Christian calendar is a profound treasure. Raised in the “low church” tradition, we incidentally bumped against it. Having then been graced to live in it corporately for years, I feel lost without it (following on my own).
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