Author Archives: David Cartledge

Developing The Trinitarian Mind

How then do we develop a Trinitarian mind so that we emerging out of our Trinitarian Faith? I would suggest that we must continually reflect on God’s Self-Revelation.   God has revealed HIMSELF to us. So we don’t begin by projecting … Continue reading →

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Triadic Patterns

Triadic Patterns   In Paul’s writings we see a few Triadic patterns.   1 Cor. 12.4-6    4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds … Continue reading →

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Testing

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The Circle of Love

Over the last few weeks, we have been in the upper room listening to Jesus talk about “in-ness”. I think that we can say that in the upper room we see the inner-depths of Life in the Trinity. For the … Continue reading →

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You in me

The Incarnate Son is in the Father.  He lives inside the Father.  That means there is now a real human being within the Triune Communion.  The Divine Son has always been part of the Triune Communion. But in the Incarnation … Continue reading →

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I in You

The Son was always in the Father.  He was always God living inside the Father Then the Son became human.  He did not just appear as a human he became fully human as one of us.  Here, in John 14.20, … Continue reading →

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I am in my Father

The purpose of the Triune communion is inclusion.  The three want to include us in their communion of love.  More specifically, we saw that the purpose of the Triune Communion is to adopt us into the Son’s relationship with the … Continue reading →

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One Purpose in Communion

Within the communion of three persons, there is a single purpose.  This single purpose is born out of the self-giving love of the three.  And the three persons are always together in achieving this single purpose. What is this One … Continue reading →

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Three Persons in Communion In our Western culture we are very individualistic.  That means we see ourselves as individuals and we even relate to God as if he were an individual.  But God is not an individual.  His Oneness is … Continue reading →

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The Faceless God

Jesus is the Face of God.  That means all our thinking about God must start with Jesus. He is the unveiling of God.  As we look at Jesus we are able to see the inner life of God.  We see the internal … Continue reading →

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