2018-09-02 Santa Clara Nazarene

Message: Beauty - the 3^rd Transcendental

The thesis of today's message is: It’s time to grow beyond thinking of Christian faith as just true and good and begin to think about and share our faith as beautiful.

You can access my preaching notes by just clicking on the link at the top of this section.

The word "transcendental" refers to something that is beyond the physical, such as "metaphysical." The Three Transcendentals of classic Christian faith are:

1. True

2. Good

3. Beautiful

But for many decades, traditions like ours have over-focused on convincing people that Christian faith is good and true while mostly ignoring its beauty. Especially today, we need to lift up the beauty - even above the other two.

From the sermon notes and the footnotes, you will find more resources beyond what we have time for this morning.

Blessings,

Tim