Chapter,  Paragraph

  1 Pref   |                preaching the Gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is
  2 Pref   |          fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and
  3 Pref   |                5:17). The good news of God’s kingdom, the “new wine”
  4 Pref   |                and power of the living God as Father, Son and Holy
  5 Pref   |               that it awakens faith in God’s saving power and action
  6 Pref   |        creation” in Christ blossoms by God’s grace. All these elements
  7 Pref   |               of being co-workers with God, we plant and water as did
  8 Pref   |              did Paul and Apollos, but God gives the growth (1 Cor.
  9 Intro,1|                women deeply hunger for God and authentic expressions
 10 Intro,2|       proclaims the truth as a gift of God. At the heart of this awesome
 11 Intro,2|          vision of truth pertaining to God, man, creation, salvation,
 12 Intro,2|              the image and likeness of God. For the Cappadocian Fathers
 13 Intro,2|             way of sharing the mind of God. Without the gift of reason,
 14 Intro,2|          freely chosen progress toward God.[3]~ There is a growing
 15 Intro,3|              laity, together making up God’s people, all mutually supportive
 16 Intro,3|          fullness of faith and life in God.~ Once again, the challenge
 17 Intro,3|           image of unity in love which God offers to the world. Our
 18 Intro,4|                adoration of the Triune God worthy of all praise and
 19 Intro,4|          reception of the blessings of God’s kingdom. To the degree
 20 Intro,4|              to analyze and comprehend God, Eastern Christianity seeks
 21 Intro,4|               and adore the mystery of God. Innumerable converts have
 22 Intro,4|        breathing fire” and ready to do God’s work in the world.~ ~
 23 Intro,5|               taught that the glory of God is a person fully alive
 24 Intro,5|              life is the experience of God. “If I love the Lord, how
 25 Intro,5|                hell was created not by God but by His creatures and
 26 Intro,5|          refusal of His love, and that God equally loves those in hell,
 27 Intro,5|              saving grace and power of God. Called to obedience, we
 28 Intro,5|                hostile toward the true God. Minimalism is lukewarm
 29 Intro,5|               zeal into divine love by God’s grace.~ ~
 30 Intro,6|                kindled by the grace of God, is the vital energy behind
 31 Intro,6|        administration with the eyes of God. We must come out of our
 32 Intro,6|               all things in order that God’s glory may shine in all
 33 1,1    |              in the self-revelation of God in salvation history. In
 34 1,2    |               Scripture as the word of God, (b) the earthly ministry
 35 1,2    |         Himself, the Incarnate Word of God, who is the supreme revelation
 36 1,2    |            associated with the word of God, a salvific word of truth
 37 1,2    |          unwritten and written word of God. The great biblical figures
 38 1,2    |              direct communication with God. Their intimacy with God
 39 1,2    |               God. Their intimacy with God excluded the need of books.
 40 1,2    |             leaders and had to receive God's truth in written words
 41 1,2    |          Scripture is an expression of God's condescension or accommodation
 42 1,2    |           highest mode of knowledge of God is not dependent on books
 43 1,2    |               leaders of the people of God who are in intimate communion
 44 1,2    |                intimate communion with God.~ However, according to
 45 1,2    |             truth nor the authority of God's written word. For Saint
 46 1,2    |        inspired by the Holy Spirit, is God's word. This authoritative
 47 1,2    |                the~hearing the word of God, and to deem no season unseasonable. . .
 48 1,2    |                closeness to the Son of God (syggeneian pros ton uion
 49 1,2    |           Christ's earthly ministry:~ ~God on earth, humanity in heaven;
 50 1,2    |                 reconciliation between~God and our nature, the devil
 51 1,2    |              gifts given on account of God's great love toward humanity.
 52 1,2    |             merely as being beloved of God, [that] we received what
 53 1,2    |           forgets that all are part of God’s gifts, all are dependent
 54 1,2    |              Saint John states:~ ~That God became man, that He performed
 55 1,2    |              Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel!”
 56 1,2    |              worthy to know the Son of God; to rejoice, not~in thought
 57 1,2    |             had its origin hence, from God having~become man and having
 58 1,3    |             above all and mighty, even God the Word, and condemn those
 59 1,3    |                epiphany of the Word of God has taken place, the darkness
 60 1,3    |               of Acts, Saint John sees God's power manifested in two
 61 1,3    |               Christ [is] the power of God and the wisdom of God” (
 62 1,3    |               of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor. 1:24). Nor does
 63 1,3    |             wisdom but in the power of God (1 Cor. 2:4-5).~ In his
 64 1,3    |              unlearned men established God's word in the world, are
 65 1,3    |          eloquent Christian shows that God embraces everyone and does
 66 1,3    |            wisdom, but of the grace of God.” The Antiochean sings the
 67 1,4    |               The power of the word of God is released in the act of
 68 1,4    |                its capacity to receive God's gifts, such as righteousness
 69 1,4    |              not your own, but that of God . . . “for you do not achieve
 70 1,4    |            power to become children of God.” Chrysostom comments that,
 71 1,4    |               and earnest attention to God's word. If people long to
 72 1,4    |               reception of the word of God is spiritual cleansing.
 73 1,4    |         cleansing and healing power of God's word is given to receptive
 74 1,4    |              the devil sees the law of God written in the soul, and
 75 1,4    |           based on the conviction that God's word is to be preached
 76 1,4    |         message concerning a crucified God; 5) the persuasion of the
 77 1,4    |              our means to the glory of God.”[41]~ Receiving and enjoying
 78 1,4    |             been given. . . The Son of God was made man for you; He
 79 2,1    |               as the supreme record of God's self-revelation and to
 80 2,1    |          tradition — the full truth of God's saving work through Christ
 81 2,1    |            recognition that the living God transcends doctrines. As
 82 2,1    |             not shine, nor a time when God's truth has not been suppressed.
 83 2,1    |            ages but now made manifest, God's mystery of Christ, in
 84 2,1    |                as the new household of God, the redeemed universal
 85 2,1    |           manifesting the treasures of God's blessings (Eph 2:19-22;
 86 2,2    |                way of the adoration of God. It is not our intention
 87 2,2    |         pertaining to the good news of God's saving work through Christ.
 88 2,2    |               is the Trisagion — “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal:
 89 2,2    |                of redemption, O loving God.~ You were nailed upon the
 90 2,2    |                dead for ages, O loving God.~  As God You rose in glory
 91 2,2    |               ages, O loving God.~  As God You rose in glory from the
 92 2,2    |           mortal~nature praises You as God; death is destroyed and
 93 2,2    |               as the Christ and Son of God, the veneration of the cross,
 94 2,2    |               education, the people of God depended primarily on worship
 95 2,2    |              New Testaments who served God's purposes in the history
 96 2,2    |          worshipers the total scope of God's dealings with human beings
 97 2,2    |             beings exalting especially God's great acts of deliverance
 98 2,2    |           calls the marvelous deeds of God. In this sense the liturgical
 99 2,2    |               the Bible as the word of God and prompts the worshipers
100 2,2    |               preaching of the word of God bears efficacious power
101 2,2    |         congregation with the power of God's word. A prayerful liturgist
102 2,2    |       actualizing its blessings amidst God's people. The Liturgy constitutes
103 2,2    |            Once again we offer to You (God the Father) this rational (
104 2,2    |                prayer offers thanks to God the Father for all the work
105 2,3    |            Scripture, the preaching of God's word, and its practical
106 2,3    |            application in the lives of God's people. The prayer for
107 2,3    |             Gospel alone,” and “me and God's word alone,” leading not
108 2,3    |                saving action belong to God, yet require the positive
109 2,3    |              preeminently preachers of God's word and biblical theologians.
110 2,3    |  uncompromising witness to the word of God.[50]~ Although Chrysostom
111 2,3    |                closeness to the Son of God. These blessings are undeserved
112 2,3    |         undeserved gifts on account of God's great love toward humanity.
113 2,3    |             merely as being beloved of God [that], we received what
114 2,3    |               Christians under pain of God's judgment.[56]~ The position
115 2,3    |              saving activity belong to God, while the free and active
116 2,3    |                the capacity to receive God's gifts, such as the righteousness
117 2,3    |              not your own, but that of God . . . for you do not achieve
118 2,3    |               the accomplished work of God and the blessings of the
119 2,4    |              the mystery of the Triune God, the mystery of Christ,
120 2,4    |              Christ as the fullness of God on earth. The mystery of
121 2,4    |             consummation. He points to God's love and goodness in reaching
122 2,4    |               as the One who was fully God and fully man. The Alexandrian'
123 2,4    |                intimate communion with God. The Alexandrian Father
124 2,4    |               union and communion with God, the indwelling of Christ
125 2,4    |                release of the power of God's word through the application
126 2,4    |          dealer~bound by contract, but God our Creator and Redeemer.~
127 2,4    |                a reward is serving not God but~his own will.~ 117.
128 2,4    |             the Holy Gospels~say about God, then let me be anathema
129 2,4    |              be anathema from the Lord God Jesus Christ.[78]~ ~
130 2,5    |              sight of the immediacy of God. The Church as a sociological
131 3,1    |               power may be released by God’s grace.~ In our generation
132 3,3    |              the presence and power of God, the Christian movement
133 3,3    |              of what they proclaimed — God’s love and forgiveness,
134 3,3    |              the presence and power of God in the community. It was
135 3,3    |           community of believers, that God was truly at work in their
136 3,3    |            fully alive by the grace of God.~ Indeed, if the Gospel
137 3,3    |              No Christian can say that God loved the ancient world
138 3,4    |       announcement of the good news of God’s kingdom, saying: “The
139 3,4    |          fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and
140 3,4    |                the place of the living God. Jesus’ answer was to confront
141 3,4    |              the presence and power of God. He assured them that He “
142 3,4    |                was on the immediacy of God’s presence as the source
143 3,4    |                He meant by “kingdom of God” which He himself made real
144 3,4    |       Parishioners know that Christ is God and Savior according to
145 3,4    |               historical experience of God. Jesus began with the heralding
146 3,4    |            began with the heralding of God’s kingdom as a present reality.
147 3,4    |                wisdom and skill but on God’s authority and power. It
148 3,4    |                message that comes from God, it announces the work of
149 3,4    |               it announces the work of God in Christ, it tells about
150 3,4    |              in Christ, it tells about God’s blessings and demands,
151 3,4    |               demands, and it leads to God.~ What must be emphasized
152 3,4    |               that the Gospel mediates God’s presence and power here
153 3,4    |             the Gospel is the power of God for everyone who believes” (
154 3,4    |                transformative grace of God breaking into people’s lives: “
155 3,4    |              creation, an ephiphany of God’s grace transforming simultaneously
156 3,4    |            therefore allow, the living God do His work through the
157 3,4    |               message and receptive of God’s grace. They must love
158 3,4    |          Gospel — which is the word of God, the word of the Cross,
159 3,4    |             the announcement of grace, God’s gift of love and forgiveness —
160 3,4    |               this one thing: to bring God into the lives of people
161 3,4    |            people into the presence of God. By unceasing focus on the
162 3,4    |                s awareness that we are God’s co-workers and witnesses,
163 3,4    |           witnesses, that we are doing God’s work, and that we are
164 3,4    |              that we are doing it with God’s guidance and power. And
165 3,4    |            guidance and power. And let God do the rest. The result
166 3,4    |              gift. The Gospel is that “God so loved the world that
167 3,4    |                If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying
168 3,4    |               doing, it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). At the most
169 3,4    |                being, all are gifts of God.~ And yet the popular perception
170 3,4    |              whom we share the life of God the Father in the power
171 3,4    |                we are truly blessed by God’s grace, the fulfillment
172 3,4    |                The gifts and graces of God always come first.~ Preaching
173 3,4    |         gratitude and appreciation for God’s blessings, and thus inspiring
174 3,4    |            live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself
175 3,4    |           participation in the life of God (theosis) —  are anchored
176 3,4    |          fragrance of the knowledge of God” and “the aroma of Christ
177 3,4    |                 the aroma of Christ to God” (2 Cor. 2:14-15). This
178 3,4    |            describe the mystery of how God Himself lights up the light
179 3,4    |             Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine
180 3,4    |              knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ” (
181 3,4    |              the transcendent power of God in us which upholds us in
182 3,4    |          fragrance of the knowledge of God,” wherever God has placed
183 3,4    |            knowledge of God,” wherever God has placed us. When a sufficient
184 3,4    |                itself, by the grace of God, becomes a burning bush
185 3,4    |              becomes a burning bush of God’s presence for all to see,
186 4,1    |       announcement of the good news as God’s message of salvation but
187 4,1    |            salvation, the good news of God’s saving work through Christ
188 4,1    |             existence by the action of God, and specifically through
189 4,1    |               the Spirit on Pentecost. God, Church and Gospel are intimately
190 4,1    | self-disclosure and saving activity of God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit —
191 4,1    |             testified by the Church as God’s people, and proclaimed
192 4,2    |              the mystery of the living God encountered in personal
193 4,2    |               plentitude of the living God as Father, Son and Spirit,
194 4,2    |                the risen Christ? It is God the Father in whom all authority
195 4,2    |            birth of Jesus as Emmanuel/”God with us” (Mt. 1:23), the
196 4,2    |           risen Lord and unique Son of God possesses, He commissions
197 4,2    |              status as Lord and Son of God, possesses full divine authority,
198 4,2    |              along with the Father and God’s Spirit. Christian faith
199 4,2    |             momentous understanding of God as Trinity. Of course, to
200 4,2    |               experience and belief in God as Father, Son and Spirit.~
201 4,2    |           Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the
202 4,2    |                faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who
203 4,2    |             Christian understanding of God as Trinity (e.g., Acts 1:
204 4,2    |             Christian understanding of God as Trinity arises from primary
205 4,2    |             raised against the view of God as Trinity. One objection
206 4,2    |                of syncretistic view of God is diametrically opposed
207 4,2    |           Jewish and Christian view of God as the living God of Abraham,
208 4,2    |              view of God as the living God of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac.
209 4,2    |              voices and proclaimed the God of Israel as the only true
210 4,2    |               the only true and living God. The biblical teaching about
211 4,2    |                biblical teaching about God developed precisely in polemical
212 4,2    |                 O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall
213 4,2    |               shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
214 4,2    |         loyalty to the true and living God of Israel, intends to reject
215 4,2    |            example, Baal the fertility god of Canaan, or Moloch to
216 4,2    |              community’s beliefs about God and its worship of God directly
217 4,2    |           about God and its worship of God directly impact on the community’
218 4,2    |                yet for us there is one God, the Father . . . and one
219 4,2    |             offer to demons and not~to God. I do not want you to be
220 4,2    |                the trinitarian view of God may be traced back to German
221 4,2    |               the saving activities of God, so it was claimed, not
222 4,2    |             the metaphysical nature of God. Church dogma allegedly
223 4,2    |              Testament, is to speak of God not as an isolated singularity
224 4,2    |        singularity or exclusive monad. God existed and acted by means
225 4,2    |       intimations of the plentitude of God — Yahweh existing and revealing
226 4,2    |             Spirit, the two “hands” of God according to Saint Eirenaios,
227 4,2    |          experiential understanding of God as Holy Trinity is taken
228 4,2    |                he is able to appeal to God and to Christ in the same
229 4,2    |                6: “For us there is one God, the Father, from whom are
230 4,2    |               whom he names as eternal God, the Only Son and Revealer
231 4,2    |              Nazareth is the incarnate God, not the Father but the
232 4,2    |             the Name and deep being of God, and therefore who shares
233 4,2    |             Christian understanding of God as Trinity.~ Let me add
234 4,2    |              argument that the idea of God as Holy Trinity is a metaphysical
235 4,2    |              prayed, “I believe in one God, Father Almighty . . . and
236 4,2    |                name and saving work of God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit —
237 4,2    |           trinitarian understanding of God had read the same Church
238 4,2    |             activities which belong to God the Father, then the conclusion
239 4,2    |               of the being and life of God. It was such thoroughly
240 4,2    |     description of my understanding of God as Trinity, the central
241 4,2    |               coherent and compelling. God is primarily God the Father,
242 4,2    |           compelling. God is primarily God the Father, the source of
243 4,2    |                Thus the Trinity is one God, Father, Son and Spirit,
244 4,2    |            patristic principle that in God as Trinity all things are
245 4,2    |             full unity of the one true God disclosed in three distinct
246 4,3    |             relationship with the holy God. God’s call of Abraham created
247 4,3    |        relationship with the holy God. God’s call of Abraham created
248 4,3    |           descendants according to the God’s promise: “I will make
249 4,3    |           everlasting pact, to be your God and the God of your descendants
250 4,3    |                 to be your God and the God of your descendants after
251 4,3    |                after you” (Gen. 17:7). God’s personal self-disclosure
252 4,3    |              Abraham and the people of God, a relationship by God’s
253 4,3    |              of God, a relationship by God’s free and elective grace,
254 4,3    |              based on divine love. And God’s purpose was universal:
255 4,3    |            purpose was universal: that God’s people would be a light
256 4,3    |               from Egypt recapitulates God’s purposeful will to liberate
257 4,3    |           people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen~
258 4,3    |                your God; the Lord your God has chosen~you to be a people
259 4,3    |               flagrant injustice among God’s own people. The result
260 4,3    |        proclaimed a dramatic vision of God’s holy presence, the shekinah,
261 4,3    |            covenant but its renewal in God’s time. In the words of
262 4,3    |          speaking as the mouthpiece of God:~ ~I will vindicate the
263 4,3    |                the Lord, says the Lord God, when through you I vindicate
264 4,3    |              other nations by means of God’s election, but also the
265 4,3    |           presence and power of a holy God who demands covenant fidelity
266 4,3    |                of the covenant between God and his people. We have
267 4,3    |              saving work of the Son of God. Saint Paul’s account of
268 4,3    |             basis of the new people of God is also clearly evident
269 4,3    |               the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone
270 4,3    |              return of the shekinah of God, the outpouring of the Spirit
271 4,3    |                but to the community of God’s people who now formed
272 4,3    |              you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s
273 4,3    |              are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? . . .
274 4,3    |               dwells in you? . . . For God’s temple is holy, and that
275 4,3    |          election and saving action of God expressed in trinitarian
276 4,3    |                 chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified
277 4,3    |             through the living word of God, the Gospel, as well as
278 4,3    |             exhortation is to live out God’s gift in holiness of conduct. “
279 4,3    |               sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1
280 4,3    |         relationship of Jesus with the God of Israel. While the God
281 4,3    |               God of Israel. While the God of Israel remains the same
282 4,3    |               unique Son who addresses God as Father and also teaches
283 4,3    |        Christians are made children of God, brothers and sisters of
284 4,3    |             Christ, and joint heirs of God with him. Thus the Christian
285 4,3    |             him the filial relation to God. Every facet of our relation
286 4,3    |               facet of our relation to God, every blessing and every
287 4,3    |           Christ who lived and died as God’s presence among us mediating
288 4,3    |                our life and death with God. But the filial relation
289 4,3    |                that we are children of God” (Rom 8:15-16). It is the
290 4,3    |             community as the people of God. Accordingly, all aspects
291 4,3    |          Christian life are related to God as Trinity. Just as all
292 4,3    |                or action is offered to God the Father through the Son
293 4,4    |          fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and
294 4,4    |              the presence and power of God, the early Christians were
295 4,4    |                a gift of new life from God, intended for all people
296 4,4    |                and Satan are defeated, God’s blessings of love and
297 4,4    |       disclosure of the saving work of God. The Evangelists Matthew
298 4,4    |              the Savior and Emmanuel — God with us (Mt. 1:21-23; Lk.
299 4,4    |               Jesus Christ, the Son of God” (Mk 1:1). And the Evangelist
300 4,4    |               eternal Word or Logos of God “became flesh and dwelt
301 4,4    |                of Christ himself, what God accomplished through him,
302 4,4    |             also called “the Gospel of God” (Mk 1:14; Rom. 1:1; 15:
303 4,4    |                 1 Thess. 2:2,9). It is God the Father who is the main
304 4,4    |          Gospel is the active power of God as a transforming reality
305 4,4    |                saving righteousness of God to all who believe (Rom.
306 4,4    |            fullness of the presence of God, Saint Paul could say: “
307 4,4    |                could say: “All is from God. . . that is, God was in
308 4,4    |              is from God. . . that is, God was in Christ reconciling
309 4,4    |               2 Cor. 5:19).~ Moreover, God’s saving work in Christ,
310 4,4    |                as one, true and living God is fully involved in the
311 4,4    |     sanctification and glorification — God the Father working through
312 4,4    |               transforming presence of God as Trinity. Proclaiming
313 4,4    |            witness of mercy and glory, God’s holy people declaring “
314 5,1    |                 prayer is the power of God’s grace raising us to the
315 5,1    |             raising us to the realm of God’s life. As a task, prayer
316 5,1    |               that we may be worthy of God’s blessings. The “Liturgy,”
317 5,1    |               whole life to Christ our God.” We also “lift up our hearts”
318 5,1    |        experience the grace and joy of God’s kingdom. It is said that
319 5,1    |               praising and adoring our God “in spirit and truth” (Jn
320 5,1    |       releasing the grace and power of God. Christ taught us to pray: “
321 5,2    |              and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior” (Lk. 1:41-47).
322 5,2    |                Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone; and you
323 5,2    |               shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
324 5,2    |              He continued in prayer to God” (Lk. 6:12). On one occasion,
325 5,2    |              23:46).~ Christ was fully God, one with the Father and
326 5,2    |               attributes of the Triune God. But He was also fully human,
327 5,2    |            live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself
328 5,2    |             all his joys and trials to God. They also abound with specific
329 5,2    |            strive with me in prayer to God” (Rom. 15:30). To the Thessalonians,
330 5,2    |                for this is the will of God in Christ for you” and again
331 5,2    |              requests be made known to God. And the peace~of God, which
332 5,2    |               to God. And the peace~of God, which passes all understanding,
333 5,2    |            fact a prayer: “Glory be to God for all things” (Doxa Theo
334 5,2    |           toils, Saint was a seeker of God’s love and of how to enliven
335 5,2    |              to enliven the heart with God’s holy presence. Cardiologists
336 5,2    |             the “electrical” charge of God’s grace and gives the soul
337 5,2    |        fervently the mind and heart to God. Prayer is the beginning
338 5,2    |           basis of all striving toward God.”~ The third example from
339 5,2    |               to inward communion with God and possessed the power
340 5,2    |         essence of the inner life with God which begins with a spark,
341 5,3    |               begin with the praise of God, then make an entreaty of
342 5,3    |          additional words of praise to God. Or a prayer may begin with
343 5,3    |              finish with the praise of God. However, the meaning of
344 5,3    |           faith and communication with God. All prayers, whatever their
345 5,3    |               or call upon the name of God. The highest moment of invocation
346 5,3    |              bishop or priest prays to God the Father: “We ask, pray,
347 5,3    |               it tells something about God, something about those who
348 5,3    |             prayer itself.~ Concerning God, the act of invocation tells
349 5,3    |           accessible and approachable. God is a personal and loving
350 5,3    |               is a personal and loving God who not only makes Himself
351 5,3    |           moment of salvation history, God spoke to Moses from the
352 5,3    |             the immensity of the task, God promised him: “I will be
353 5,3    |              12). When Moses asked for God’s name, God revealed His
354 5,3    |            Moses asked for God’s name, God revealed His sacred name,
355 5,3    |                me to you’” (Ex. 3:14). God’s sacred name intimates
356 5,3    |               intimates the mystery of God’s being and character —
357 5,3    |           accessible. By His very name God assures us: “I am here.
358 5,3    |               the “hidden” Revealer of God in the Old Testament. It
359 5,3    |           Christ, the eternal Logos of God, who spoke to Moses from
360 5,3    |               When we pray, we come to God as supplicants. We approach
361 5,3    |               supplicants. We approach God as those who have been given
362 5,3    |                and charge to call upon God as Father. As often as we
363 5,3    |            Almighty. Moreover, because God deigns to be at our disposal,
364 5,3    |             our disposal, to call upon God is to activate His immense
365 5,3    |             believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead,
366 5,3    |                By invoking the name of God we engage the holy and mighty
367 5,3    |             engage the holy and mighty God, Creator and Lord of life.
368 5,3    |             Lord of life. Calling upon God’s name is not the only criterion
369 5,3    |                daring and awesome act. God is holy and burning fire
370 5,3    |           approached the burning bush, God said to Him: “Take off your
371 5,3    |             put off before approaching God’s holy presence. In a parallel
372 5,3    |            when the Prophet Isaiah saw God enthroned in glory (Is.
373 5,3    |           wings as they hovered around God’s throne and sang: “Holy,
374 5,3    |          Testament.~ The invocation of God is awesome to contemplate.
375 5,3    |              contemplate. To call upon God means to come before God’
376 5,3    |               God means to come before God’s holy presence. The immediate
377 5,3    |                immediate experience of God evokes powerful attraction
378 5,3    |              and equal fear because of God’s majesty and holiness.
379 5,3    |            being judged by a righteous God who desires reformation
380 5,3    |                the beauty and power of God’s love, from the inward
381 5,3    |              the light and holiness of God. Those who are responsive
382 5,3    |            Those who are responsive to God’s beauty and love, and desire
383 5,3    |           proclaims: “With the fear of God, faith and love, draw near!”
384 5,3    |             the presence of the living God. Prayer as invocation brings
385 5,3    |                us before the throne of God, calling upon Him, seeking
386 5,4    |                time of need. We invoke God when urgencies or dangers
387 5,4    |              abiding relationship with God. Saint Symeon the Theologian
388 5,4    |              began fervently to invoke God like the blind man who called
389 5,4    |               stable relationship with God. When we call upon God with
390 5,4    |            with God. When we call upon God with consistency, spend
391 5,4    |               into deeper knowledge of God and thus to an abiding relationship
392 5,4    |               is a way of looking into God’s face and allowing Him
393 5,4    |         talking and spending time with God, a way of bridging the gap
394 5,4    |              they do not feel close to God. Despite their good works
395 5,4    |     participation in worship services, God seems remote and distant.
396 5,4    |          desire to live in nearness to God. Developing such a relationship
397 5,4    |               such a relationship with God, just as with other people,
398 5,4    |               conscious choice to know God through personal encounter.
399 5,4    |              experiential knowledge of God is an adventure in divine
400 5,4    |                the grace and beauty of God.~ A number of image in the
401 5,4    |               To pray is to speak with God. Prayer as dialogue suggests
402 5,4    |           continuous relationship with God in which prayer is not only
403 5,4    |             with but also listening to God as we seek to grow in our
404 5,4    |         sometimes be a way of avoiding God and evading the personal
405 5,4    |         beautiful garden testifying to God’s presence and glory. To
406 5,4    |             and mutual loyalty between God, the main actor, and His
407 5,4    |                holy people of the holy God. Saint Paul draws from this
408 5,4    |               now the living Temple of God and that they were to lead
409 5,4    |               For we are the Temple of God; as God said: ‘I will live
410 5,4    |              are the Temple of God; as God said: ‘I will live in them
411 5,4    |              them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people . . .
412 5,4    |       Accordingly, our relationship to God is not merely one of isolated
413 5,4    |              celebrated in community — God’s holy people.~ Prayer as
414 5,4    |                as it is appropriate to God and to His people who are
415 5,4    |                His sons and daughters. God neither forces nor intimidates
416 5,4    |         neither control nor manipulate God to accomplish selfish designs.
417 5,4    |             our thanks and requests to God but also our honest questions
418 5,4    |          meaning “one who strives with God.” He called the place of
419 5,4    |          Peniel,” meaning “the face of God” and said: “I have seen
420 5,4    |                 and said: “I have seen God face to face, and yet my
421 5,4    |                knowing that a merciful God would not follow through
422 5,4    |           Jonah complained bitterly to God. “Are you angry?” God asked.
423 5,4    |               to God. “Are you angry?” God asked. Jonah replied: “I
424 5,4    |           open-ended relationship with God, our waverings between faith
425 5,4    |            hope and despair as we seek God’s hand in life?~ A difficult
426 5,4    |            tale. Our relationship with God includes times of pain and
427 5,4    |             with a superficial view of God as Santa Claus who quit
428 5,4    |              who have turned away from God because of immense suffering
429 5,4    |                 yes” of affirmation by God. He understood the negation
430 5,4    |          weaknesses, that the power of God may rest upon me. For the
431 5,4    |              holy passion according to God’s will.~ Unanswered prayer?
432 5,4    |           believe there is such thing. God answers our prayers in various
433 5,4    |            wait is long, we must allow God to act according to His
434 5,4    |              altogether. We believe in God’s love and goodness. We
435 5,4    |            knowing that “in everything God works for good with those
436 5,5    |             level of the experience of God. The element of communion
437 5,5    |                vital relationship with God. However, when communion
438 5,5    |           covenental relationship with God, based on the Law and the
439 5,5    |           Jeremiah foresaw a time when God would make a “new covenant”
440 5,5    |               the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone
441 5,5    |            knowledge and experience of God.~ The language of communion
442 5,5    |           participation in the life of God. Prayer was neither to inform
443 5,5    |           Prayer was neither to inform God about our material needs
444 5,5    |       illuminated with the radiance of God. In prayer the believer
445 5,5    |        identified as true knowledge of God. In his own work On Prayer
446 5,5    |         theology, that is knowledge of God: “If you are a theologian,
447 5,5    |                not merely the gifts of God but God Himself, that is,
448 5,5    |            merely the gifts of God but God Himself, that is, to be
449 5,5    |                shone with the light of God’s glory. The pilgrim writes:~ ~“
450 5,5    |               witnessed to the love of~God for man, that everything
451 5,5    |          everything proved the love of God for man, that all things~
452 5,5    |              that all things~prayed to God and sang His praise.”~ ~
453 5,5    |              in the uncreated grace of God. It is the new creation
454 5,5    |              knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ” which
455 5,5    |              the face of Christ” which God shines in our hearts (2
456 5,5    |          context of theosis. We invoke God to connect with Him. As
457 5,5    |               union and communion with God, a true image of our eternal
458 5,5    |           participation in the life of God. Properly speaking, theosis
459 5,5    |              humble prayer and seeking God’s guidance in daily life
460 5,5    |          uttered the aching words: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken
461 5,5    |              aching words: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me” (
462 5,5    |              we have been abandoned by God and that despair may be
463 5,5    |         moments of true communion with God for strength and endurance.
464 5,5    |               yields to light, because God is stronger than darkness.~ ~ ~
465 6,1    |            creation. The centrality of God's love for the world and
466 6,1    |               by an inner yearning for God. This was highlighted by
467 6,1    |              Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner” —
468 6,1    |              the icon of the Mother of God, and the Jesus Prayer entered
469 6,1    |          monastery my soul apprehended God in the Holy~Spirit . . .
470 6,1    |               Spirit . . . I turned to God for forgiveness, and He
471 6,1    |                Holy Spirit, and I knew God in the Holy Spirit.[98]~
472 6,1    |              know~that Jesus Christ is God.[99]~ I brought nothing
473 6,1    |               and complete reliance on God. In general Silouan's spiritual
474 6,1    |          knowledge of the mysteries of God. Having discerned and renounced
475 6,1    |              AD). Silouan was a man of God. He had come to know God
476 6,1    |               God. He had come to know God deeply and personally. The
477 6,1    |               a calling to write about God's love for the world. He
478 6,1    |                with my~soul captive to God? How shall I be silent when
479 6,1    |          personal witness on behalf of God, such as in the case of
480 6,1    |              write out of the grace of God. Yea, this is truth. The
481 6,1    |                reality of the glory of God and the need to call all
482 6,1    |                but to all. The love of God, the call to repentance,
483 6,1    |             were part of the people of God. Silouan's soul calls out
484 6,1    |                all may repent and know God, and live in love, and delight
485 6,1    |              and delight in freedom in God...~0 all ye peoples of the
486 6,1    |                the earth, fashioned by God, know your Creator and His
487 6,1    |               created for the glory of God... Cleave not to the earth,
488 6,1    |           Cleave not to the earth, for God is our Father~and He loves
489 6,1    |          deeply personal way both with God and with man. Not infrequently,
490 6,1    |                all to be reconciled to God (11 Cor. 5:20), Silouan
491 6,1    |               with people on behalf of God, as one pleads with dearly
492 6,1    |       authority received directly from God. His notations have the
493 6,1    |            mind. He writes as a man of God to convert the heart. What
494 6,1    |          writings such as knowledge of God, the Holy Spirit, prayer,
495 6,2    |                           Knowledge of God.~ Silouan's life was focused
496 6,2    |          seeking personal knowledge of God. Through his spiritual journey
497 6,2    |                this: who comes to know God and who does not. He taught
498 6,2    |                in the world is to know God and to understand His will,
499 6,2    |             more precious than to know God; nothing is more disastrous
500 6,2    |              For Silouan, knowledge of God was direct and immediate,