TheDeadPreachersSociety

A group of friends wanting to learn from the past how to preach in the present in order to shape the future.

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With one and the same charity we love God and neighbour; but God on God’s account, ourselves and neighbour also on God’s account.
Augustine Trinity Book 8:5:12

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Summer time is a bit hit and miss for blog. Here is one based on Maggie O'Farrell's new novel. Back in a couple of weeks.

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There must be no confusion or mixing up of the persons, nor such distinction of them as may imply disparity. If this cannot be grasped by understanding, let it be held by faith, until it shines in our minds. Augustine Trinity VII:4:12

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The Holy Spirt is a kind of inexpressible communion of Father and Son…He is properly called what they are called in common, seeing that both Father and Son are both holy and both father and Son are spirit.
Augustine Trinity Book 5:3:12

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When we think about the trinity we are aware that outer thoughts are quite inadequate to their object, and incapable of grasping him as he is.
Augustine Book 5 prologue:1

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Had a brief bloging pause recently due to lots of ins and outs. I hope to be back to weekly blogs in a few weeks time. Here is a blog on preaching at two funerals recently.

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Truth set you free…from death, perishability, from liability to change. Truth, surely abides immortal, imperishable, unchanging. And true immortality, true imperishability, true unchangingness, that is eternity.
Augustine Trinity 4:4:24

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“We needed to be persuaded how much God loves us, and what sort of people he loves; in case we despaired, what sort in case we grew proud.
Augustine Trinity 4:2

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God’s essence, by which he is, has absolutely nothing changeable about its eternity or its truth or its will; there truth is eternal and and love is eternal; there love is true and eternity true; there eternity is lovely and truth is lovely too.
Augustine Trinity Book 4:1

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All the surer is our love for the face of Christ which we long to see, the more clearly we recognise in his back (incarnation) how much Christ loved us.
Augustine Trinity Book 2: 6:28

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People who seek God, and search their minds as far as human weakness is able toward an understanding of the trinity, must surely experience the stain of trying to fix their gaze on light inaccessible.
Augustine Book 2 prologue 1

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Nor will I for my part, wherever I stick fast be loath to seek, nor wherever I go wrong be ashamed to learn.
Augustine Trinity 1:4

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She approached the Lord, though impure, in order to depart pure; she approached sick, in order to depart well; she approached, a confessed sinner, to depart a professed believer.
(Luke 7:36-50) Augustine sermon 99

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Live up to what you have become, a child in the family of so great a father and householder, one over whom God’s name is invoked. Augustine sermon 97

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Start being a child of God; you used to be a bad slave, yet you have already begun to be one of the household. Where you have begun to be a slave, set your heart on being a son or a daughter. Get yourself pardoned the sins you are lugging around. Augustine sermon 97

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Let us not love the world. It oppresses its lovers, it doesn’t bring them to a good end. We have to work hard in it not to be enslaved by it, instead of being afraid it may fall to pieces.”
Augustine Sermon 97

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We love the world, but we should put the one who made the world before it. The world is great , but greater is the one who made the world. The world is beautiful, but more beautiful is the one who made the world.
Augustine sermon 96

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Man’s first ruin was caused by love of self. I mean, if he hadn’t loved himself, and had put God before himself, he would have wanted always to be subject to God.
Augustine Sermon 96

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What you eat I eat; what you live on, I live on. We share a common larder in heaven, that, you see, is where the word of God comes from.
Augustine Sermon 95

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When I expound the holy Scriptures to you, it’s as though I were breaking bread to you. For your part, receive it hungrily, and belch out a fat praise from your hearts.”
Augustine Sermon 95