The curtain was rent asunder and that meant there was open access. Where before there was a set procedure to get your religious stuff sorted and that meant going through the priest system, Jesus fulfilled all that in His sacrifice on the Cross. The wonderful thing about the arrangement highlighted in Hebrews is that Jesus […]
Read More Only Jesus RepresentingTherefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. (Hebrews 2:17) We could not approach God. We needed a representative, someone through whom our obligations could be […]
Read More Jesus Is … The High PriestRecently I talked about my journey from an extremely insular perspective on faith to something a bit more expansive, without capitulating to the demands of being totally inclusive. Since I wrote that entry I’ve been reflecting on another aspect of my journey which revealed quite a bit about my character and why the sacrifice of […]
Read More Spiritual SnobberyThe next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29) Centuries earlier a son asked his father where was the lamb for the sacrifice. The father said that God Himself would provide the Lamb. This was the moment when […]
Read More Jesus Is … The Lamb Of GodI don’t usually post this kind of thing in this kind of slot, but I saw it and thought ‘yeah, that will do me’. So just watch it and reflect on the message therein. Maybe messages. For His Name’s Sake Shalom dmcd
Read More A Good Word For MenI am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. (John 10:14, 15) Jesus knows His own and His own knows Him. That level of relationship goes beyond rituals and formalities and […]
Read More Jesus Is … The Good ShepherdBefore 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 Life
