ACNA Turns 10
July 6, 2019•4 words
Happy Birthday, ACNA!
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Humanity and Impermanence
July 5, 2019•687 words
Besides the references to grass as literal food for animals, the Scriptures use grass also as simile for human finitude and impermanence. For example:
15 As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, (Ps. 103:15-17 ESV)
The Scriptures remi...
Read postPraying the Lord's Prayer
July 13, 2019•593 words
In this post, I'd like to present and suggest something that has been very valuable and undoubtedly transformative for me, that is, praying the Lord's Prayer on behalf of someone else. I have done this for my family and others close to me for years now. See Matthew 6:9-13 for the source in Scripture. The last line is not found in Scripture, but there is nothing wrong with praying it.
Here is a traditional form of the Lord's Prayer:
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingd...
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