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Category Archives: Bible
Remember That You are Dust…
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the six-and-a-half week season of Lent. The part we all know about Ash Wednesday is that people get ashes smudged on their foreheads and walk around looking somewhat goofy for the rest … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian Year, Genesis, Lent, Psalms
Tagged Ash Wednesday, dust, Genesis, Lent
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Calling Not the Clean But the Unclean – Thoughts and Prayer for Epiphany 3
The Gospel reading for today (in the Revised Common Lectionary) centers on Jesus calling his first four disciples. It is noteworthy for several reasons that these initial disciples were fishermen. One reason will suffice for now. Early Rabbinic literature specifically … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian Year, Epiphany, Gospels, Prayers
Tagged Epiphany, friend of sinners, friendship, hope, prophetic ministry, unclean
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The Baptism of Our Lord
Today is the First Sunday after Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord. Today we commemorate with joy and thanksgiving the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. As I am gathering that you may have never … Continue reading
The Person and History of the Holy Spirit Part 2: Trinitarian Ecstasy (cont.)
Previously, we discussed how the Scripture describes the very nature of the Spirit as fellowship or relationship. Not only does fellowship constitute the essential nature of the Holy Spirit, but Scripture seems to indicate that the Holy Spirit himself is … Continue reading
Theology of Creation in Isaiah Part 3 – Isaiah 40.21-24
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Creation, God's power, history, hope, Isaiah, politics, promise
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Theology of Creation in Isaiah Part 2 – Isaiah 40.12-17
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? … Continue reading
Theology of Creation in Isaiah Part 1
Discussion of the doctrine of creation in Christian theology often centers around a few loci. In fundamentalist circles, it at times revolves around the creation-evolution or the young-earth/old-earth debates. Others, having reconciled with Darwin, explain the contributions of evolutionary thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Creation, gnosticism, Isaiah, schizoid, Thomas Aquinas
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Jesus the Messiah has Come in the Flesh
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology (Humanity), Bible, Incarnation, John (Gospel and Epistles)
Tagged dualism, embodiment, flesh, heaven, Incarnation, messiah, salvation
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The Gladness of God – 551 verses and counting…
For about the past five or six years, one of my passions has been studying the subject of the gladness of God’s heart – that he is not mostly mad or mostly sad, but is indeed mostly glad. He smiles … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Theology, Theology Proper (God)
Tagged happiness, meditation, Trinity
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Do not Weep for Me…
In his gospel, Luke tells us that as Jesus was on the way to Golgotha, a number of women followed Jesus mourning and wailing for him. Remarkably, he turns to them, saying “do not weep for me; weep for yourselves … Continue reading
