Before I wrote this morning’s post on Jesus being the Door, I read and re-read John 9 and 10. In the preparation for these posts I would often spend some time pondering on my assumptions about certain references and how they match up to other perspectives on those same scriptures. For example John 10:10 is […]
Read More Jesus – Access Opened Or DeniedI am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. (John 10:9) ‘When one door shuts, another opens’. So often those pursuing places of peace try so many doors that only end in brick walls. Doors of legalism or doors of liberalism both […]
Read More Jesus Is … The DoorOn Saturday evening there was a programme on the American Dream. The documentary looked at the link between faith and the Dream. It was fascinating seeing things like the Positive Thinking message of Peale and then the mystic influences on the hippy movement and the rise of the American Right on issues like homosexuality and […]
Read More Depictions of FaithYou what? If he dies he will live? If he lives, he will never die? What’s that all about? What does that mean? How can that be? What kind of mumbo-jumbo is that? Not only that – but to say He is that – as in He embodies returning and never-perishing life – how can […]
Read More Jesus Is … The Resurrection and the LifeEarlier today I blogged on Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath. I’m sure other people have different interpretations of that claim referring to the centrality of the Sabbath being based on Him or reference to the rest inferring the final rest and not the weekly observation. More renown men than I have debated the […]
Read More Sabbath ReflectionsThe Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27, 28) Miscommunication is not difficult. Something can be said and before too long its original meaning can be completely lost. When the Pharisees picked on Jesus’ disciples for corn picking on […]
Read More Jesus Is … The Lord Of The SabbathThere are times when I am only too aware that doing a job you love is not that straightforward. Sometimes I detect an urge to get the better paying job on the thinking that as it pays better it will be better, when the reality doesn’t always match up. I realised a fair while ago […]
Read More Serving Man: Days When I Love My JobFor even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. (Mark 10:45) God’s history of turning the underdog into the big dog is etched across the Old Testament, highlighted in the rise of David. One moment a shepherd boy in the […]
Read More Jesus Is … The Son Of ManEarlier I wrote on Jesus Christ as the Son of God and that has been a thought that has been bothering me for the last few days and here’s why. By bothers me, I don’t mean it troubles me as to whether it’s true or not. It bothers me because its implications are a lot […]
Read More He Is The Son Of God – Why It MattersNow Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. (John 20:30, 31) What an amazing claim […]
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