Good Morning Friends, Today we take on a very challenging issue of interpretation of scripture. And it involves us thinking through our attitudes about laws we have in our own society too, knowing the politicians do not always agree. And the thing is that scholars do not agree either on Jesus’ attitude toward the written … Continue reading How Relevant Is The Old Testament Law In Our Age Of Grace?
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If We Really Believe All This About God, Then What Do We Do? Good Morning Friends, Today we look at beginnings and endings that are key to understanding Holy History through the eyes of Mary, for on this day Catholics around the world are celebrating the annunciation and there is something here for us to learn … Continue reading
Where Are You Living And What Are You Celebrating?
Good Morning Friends, Here we are on the Lenten journey from Transfiguration to Transformation…from Fast to Feast. And there is a message here in the crossing that we need to bring home for its relevance of how we experience Jesus in this life and the next and forgive me for not being better at communicating … Continue reading Where Are You Living And What Are You Celebrating?
When Did You First Feel The Signs Of An Anointing With God’s Leadership Of Love Conceived In Your Very Soul So You Might Be Born Again?
Good Morning Friends, Last week on our Lenten journey we have been considering the problem of our wicked and sinful nature. And it becomes clear that the problem of sin in us needs a God in us to fight the death in us. To better understand the process of how we become Christians, I asked … Continue reading When Did You First Feel The Signs Of An Anointing With God’s Leadership Of Love Conceived In Your Very Soul So You Might Be Born Again?
How Can We Seek The Right Harvest When We Humans Are So Sinful?
Good Morning Friends, There is a messiness in imagining the future unless Jesus is leading. Sure, we are to have a vision, but our creativity can turn to chaos soon enough. Our failure to imagine the continuing benefits from and to others is often the root of the evil that befalls us. There is no … Continue reading How Can We Seek The Right Harvest When We Humans Are So Sinful?
Do We Even Have An Option About Being Wicked?
Good Morning Friends, I am not typically one to quote Friedrich W. Nietzsche, the German philosopher, but since he was raised a Christian, and had a relevant observation to today’s topic here it is anyway: “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. … Continue reading Do We Even Have An Option About Being Wicked?
Where Do You Seek And Find Jesus’ Spirit?
Good Morning Friends, Today there is no Jewish Temple as such in Jerusalem. In its glory it was a place people went to discover the Holy Spirit of God. Some seek to build a new Temple for worship there, but it is not under construction, and it is unlikely we will see it rebuilt in … Continue reading Where Do You Seek And Find Jesus’ Spirit?
Why Is It So Hard To Repent?
Good Morning Friends, Well, we are into Lent and have been reading a lot of Old Testament scripture on obedience and repentance. And it should begin to soak in that there is nothing that can separate us from the power of God’s forgiveness and redemptive grace except ourselves. So, we need to not be a … Continue reading Why Is It So Hard To Repent?
Why Do You Give?
Why Do You Give? Good Morning Friends, Some who preach the prosperity Gospel promote the wrong kind of charity. It is too much about self-interest and what is in it for the giver instead of love of God and others. Oh, no doubt, God can use them all but when someone loves what they are giving … Continue reading Why Do You Give?
Whose Hands Do We Trust To Mold Us And Is It For An Earthly Kingdom Or A Heavenly One?
Good Morning Friends, Distinguishing the hand of God in one’s life is not always easy. It is not as if we get a definitive picture of it as a child. Still perhaps we do see God as a touch of comfort for a little child… or as the holder of the universe…or as the roughhewed … Continue reading Whose Hands Do We Trust To Mold Us And Is It For An Earthly Kingdom Or A Heavenly One?
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