Growing Up With the Trinity: An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman Walked Onto a Football Pitch...

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Image: GHENT, BELGIUM – DECEMBER 23, 2016: Stained Glass window depicting the Eucharist and the Holy Grail in the Cathedral of Saint Bavo in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium.

A clover is one plant; its three distinct leaves can represent the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit being separate yet all a part of something larger than itself. If you are over sixty years old and fancy a trip down memory lane, or if you are younger and wonder what all the fuss was about, I would say that Brendon McGuire has it covered with this book. In the 13th century a Russian Orthodox iconographer captured theological essence of the Trinity in his famous icon, “The Trinity”. The memories of my early awakening of becoming red or blue poured back to 1958 after my dad tried to make me blue by walking me to Maine Rd. The inspiration for this sermon started with me reflecting on this question “why does Scripture tell us to honor our father and mother” for the past couple years.

It’s a puzzle that Christian thinkers have tried to make sense of for thousands of years and I’m certain, will do so for many more! At the heart of the Christian life is not an attempt to obey precepts and instructions but to love and delight in a Person, or rather a community of Persons.

At the end of the semester, the professor said we had barely scratched the surface of studying the Trinity. This unity and diversity within the triune God is a model for the unity and diversity we experience in everyday life, especially in the Church and in marriage (Grudem, Christian Beliefs, 41). And ultimately, the praise goes to God, because like grace, our parents are something that we did nothing to merit or earn. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.Sign up for our Newsletter and Stay Connected at the end of this post to download your FREE Celtic Trinity Knot printable. Trinity Lee is my first granddaughter, and she currently lives in Austin, where she works in escrow services with a title company. In Greek, when an adjective like “one” or “the” is neuter, it implies the English translation “thing. We believe in a gracious and loving God who is revealed to us as ONE God that exists as THREE distinct PERSONS – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. And during this time, there were many parents in the church who would come up to me and praise me for how good my chinese was or how I had gone to a good college etc.