Robby Atwood

Husband • Father • Author • Avid Golfer

[Perichoresis Connection @PerichoresisC]

If Jesus can turn water into wine, he surely does not need anyone to get water for him, does he? Of course not. So why does he ask the servants for help? Because that is the kind of person he is. He delights in including others in what he is doing.
Dr C Baxter Kruger

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Perhaps Jesus turned the water into wine to show that he gets better with time.

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“It is to be emphasized that Jesus Christ did not change God the Father, and neither does our faith. Before the creation of the world, the Father, Son and Spirit set their lavish and determined love upon us and have never wavered.“ —C. Baxter Kruger

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“Moreover, since as Father, Son and Holy Spirit God is a fullness of personal Being in himself and the transcendent source of all personal being, all his actions toward us in making himself known are intensely personal.” —Thomas F. Torrance

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The earth is the Fathers dance floor. Anything you do has the Father right there in the middle of it. To see this is to experience inexpressible joy.

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Viewing God as a good Master is fine, but seeing him as a good Father is foundational.

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If you can imagine the best, most encouraging, compassionate, and good dad, just keep going and only then are you beginning to understand the Father that Jesus came to reveal.

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Just because you don't feel completely whole doesn't mean you're not completely his. Your emotions don't change his fiery gaze over you.

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“Jesus wept”

The shortest verse in scripture should tell us most about the heart of the Father.

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and has spoken to us directly and intimately about himself in Jesus Christ his beloved son.” —Thomas F. Torrance

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“It belongs to the essence of the gospel that God has come among us and become one with us in such a reconciling and miraculous way as to demolish the barriers of our creaturely distance and a estrangement from him…

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God does not look away from sin. Instead, he stares it down, destroying it with the gaze of his fiery eyes. The incarnation proves that God, in Christ, has once and for all penetrated it, in order to get inside and heal us from the inside-out.

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If God looked away from sin, as many suppose, that means he would be ignoring it. And anything ignored is destined to be unhealed. To quote T.F. Torrance, “The unassumed is the unhealed.”

[George MacDonald @MacDonald_daily]

God could not be satisfied with himself without doing all that a God and Father could do for the creatures he had made—that is to deliver his sons and daughters and bring them home with rejoicing.

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Remember, church folk: 30% tip and 0% lip 😂

[Rodeen Williams @deltakainos]

We were created to live in union with distinction in relationship with Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

In union we completely belong and in distinction we truly matter.

Union is not sameness and distinction is not separation.

Communion is the celebration of this mystical reality given to us by Jesus.

"When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you."
—John 14:20, NLT

"God made all beings to this end, to [enjoy the same union] of humanity and divinity that was in Christ."
—St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662)

“He caused things to be other than Himself that, being distinct, they may learn to love Him, and achieve union instead of mere sameness.”
—C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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Jesus Christ, our Mediator, is once and for all:

✝️ Gods response to man

-and-

🙏Man’s response to God

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“Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate from his love, any more than anything can separate the Father and the Son from one another” —Thomas F. Torrance

[Father Jim Sichko @JimSichko]

A beautiful gesture of acceptance and love...💞

A girl with Down syndrome, got up during a papal talk, and went toward the Pope. The security men quickly moved in to take her back to her mother. The Pope stopped everyone and said to the girl, "come sit next to me.” The girl then sat down near him and the Holy Father continued to speak while holding hands with the little girl.

[Robby Atwood @robbyatwood]

I’ve come to realize that my “pursuit” of God was actually just me awakening to the magnetic pull of his pursuit.