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- Daniel Hames
- Article, Audio, Friends of Union
Friends, it’s not incidental to God that he is a kind and loving Father. That’s not a role he’s stepped into or an act that he tries to pull off while inwardly just being transcendent and disinterested in you.When you pray the Lord’s Prayer and call him “Our Father” or “Abba, Father,” you’re not asking him to pretend for a moment he’s less like God and more like Jesus than he actually is. You’re putting your finger on the very essence of God.
Daniel Hames introduces the early Church Father, Cyril of Alexandria. Cyril’s legacy endures as one of the most influential figures in the development of the doctrine of Christ, shaping the theological landscape of Christianity for centuries to come.
It is necessary not only to pray, but also to pray “as we ought” and to pray for what we ought. Our attempt to understand what we should pray for is deficient unless we also bring to our quest the “as we ought.” Likewise, what use to us is the “as we ought” if we do not know for what we should pray?
Mike Reeves gives a one hour rundown of Church History from the Church Fathers to Schleiermacher. Fasten your seatbelt!
Mike Reeves introduces us to the crucial early centuries of the Church's life.
This statement of faith, first mentioned in 390 by Ambrose, is a summary of the gospel from the early Church, though unlikely to have originated with any of the Apostles.
Though unlikely to have been written by Athanasius, this statement of faith bears the hallmarks of his strong Trinitarian theology and focus on the Person of Christ.
The Nicene Creed (technically the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed) is the result of two early Church councils in 325 and 381. It is the only authoritative ecumenical statement accepted by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and major Protestant denominations.
Robert Letham considers the mystery of the Incarnation in an excerpt from his 'Systematic Theology' (Crossway, 2019).
Gregory of Nyssa writes on the unity of the Trinity and examines the divinity of the Holy Spirit.