This seemed like such a good picture of the true life of Jesus being obscured and covered by politics and church struggles. Praise God that He is living and that the Holy Spirit guides us in truth. If all we had to go on was history and tradition, we’d be way off course by now!
“If the church will return to acknowledge that the Holy Spirit is her strength and her help, and if the church will return to give up everything, and wait upon God to be filled with the Spirit, her days of beauty and gladness will return, and we shall see the glory of God revealed among…
The perspective of Pilate being blackmailed by the Jewish leaders sheds a lot of light on this section for me. It is so crazy that he would have Jesus flogged and pretty much give the Roman soldiers license to do whatever Pilate had Jesus scourged in hopes that a scourging would be enough to make…
John 18:3 So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. They took lanterns because they walked in darkness and refused to walk by the Light. They took torches because they did not know the fiery Glory of…
Sunday I took my two oldest sons to Family Day at the Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, Indiana. My Aunt, who is in her 60s, has been part of the community there since she was 18. It’s pretty cool walking around such a place. I’ve taken my sons to St. Meinrad and we’ve snuck around,…
I’ve been reading David Stern’s Jewish New Testament Commentary and listening to Dwight A. Pryor on the subject of Acts 2 and Pentecost. WOW. Texts: Acts 2, John 14, Exodus 20-32 The parallels between what the Jews celebrated and taught from the traditions about Pentecost and what happened on Pentecost 50 days after the Last…
I think there is so little detail about what CHURCH is in the Bible because how people worship God is as different as the cultures in which they live. When a missionary goes into uncharted territory, they do not prop up their video screens and the powerpoint and start singing Tommy Walker songs. (That would…
‚Äú‚ÄúDo not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father‚Äôs house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back…
And no, I’m not talking about saying cuss words in church… Our best effort is not what the Lord wants, Exodus 20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. Deuteronomy 12:8 You are not to…
John 13:26-28 26 Jesus answered, ‚ÄúIt is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.‚Äù So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him,…
