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Christ Transforms our Thinking

04 Wednesday Apr 2018

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Ambrose to Felix, Bishop of Comum, 380 AD:

Aaron indeed once stood in the midst,* interposing himself to prevent death passing over to the hosts of the living from the carcases of the dead. But He, as the Word, ever stands within each of us, although we see Him not, and separates the faculties of our reason from the carcase of our deadly passions and pestilential thoughts

This quote is interesting because it gets to an element of biblical counseling – or soul care: all clinical psychology is trying to change how a person thinks, desires, acts from some undesired state to what is perceived as a better state. Here Ambrose states two things: (1) Christ does change our thinking; (2) our reason has been corrupted by “deadly passions”.

What I cannot tell is whether he holds to an idea that human reason is uncorrupted and it is merely desire which corrupts. Does he hold that all desire or merely “deadly passions” are the culprit.

Lesson One: A Peacemaking Culture

21 Sunday Aug 2016

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A PEACEMAKING CULTURE—POOR IN SPIRIT

Feel free to download and use the lesson. If there are any ghastly errors, please tell me below so that I can correct them.

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Ambrose on the work and reward of ministry

10 Wednesday Aug 2016

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Ambrose of Milan: To Know God

11 Tuesday Dec 2012

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Ambrose, Church History, God, Knowing God, knowledge of God, Quotations, The Popular Preachers of the Ancient Church, William Wilson

As Ambrose of Milan taught 1500 years ago, God can only be known by an obedient faith, “He who is unwilling to see God cannot see him. God is not seen in place, but in a pure heart; nor is God sought with corporeal eyes, nor is circumscribed by sight, nor grasped by touch; nor is he heard in audible speech, nor perceived by sensible approach.”[1]


[1] William Wilson, The Popular Preachers of the Ancient Church: Their Lives, Their Manners, and Their Work (London: James Hogg & Sons, 1859), 76.

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