John 8:25
“Who are you?” they asked. “Just what I have been claiming all along,” Jesus replied.
Just what does it take to be convinced of something? I mean, at what point, do we have that “aha” moment?
Many people of Jesus’s time never did “get it.” Why? He told them over and over who He was. [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Becoming Convinced
Posted in Ordinary Time, tagged belief, faith, Jesus, way of Christ, way of Jesus on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living Among the Dead
Posted in Ordinary Time, tagged way of Christ, way of Jesus on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Luke 24:5b
“…the men said to them [women at the tomb], “Why do you look for the living among the dead?”
Albert Einstein has been attributed with saying that the definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Perhaps today is good day for me to review what I [...]
Letter of the Law
Posted in Ordinary Time, tagged adultery, forgiveness, Grace, judgment, mercy, sin, way of Christ, way of Jesus on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John 8:4-5
“…and [they] said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”
This is a very familiar passage from scripture where Jesus thwarts the efforts of the teachers of the law and the Pharisees who want [...]
Eye of the Needle
Posted in Ordinary Time, tagged Grace, mercy, poverty, rich man, Rob Bell, way of Christ, way of Jesus, wealth on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew 19:24
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
That’s us, the rich man. I don’t think we want to hear that, but it’s true. I’m reading Rob Bell’s “Jesus Wants to Save Christians,” and [...]
If You Are Thirsty
Posted in Ordinary Time on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John 7:37B
…Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink….”
It’s quite simple: if you are thirsty…. drink! But, are we thirsty? Am I? In a lifestyle and environment in which all of my needs are met, how often have I really been thirsty? I’m talking [...]
Fear of False Teaching
Posted in Ordinary Time, tagged character, false prophets, God, knowing God, true, way of Jesus, yoke on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John 7:28
Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,…”
In the past I have worried a great deal about false teaching. I knew there [...]
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