John describes for us what the earliest church looked like. It was a church characterized by two things – love for one another and an apocalyptic orientation.
A Sermon on Being a Community of Love and Apocalyptic Orientation (John 20:19-31) Read More »
At the tomb, the angel does not simply instruct teh women to tell others, but instructs the women as to the meaning of the Resurrection.
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On the Cross, Jesus takes upon himself, each of our specific sins and transgressions. He cleanses them in his blood. He buries them in the tomb. He takes them away so that they are no more. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the World.
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“The Wise Thief didst Thou make worthy of Paradise, in a single moment, O Lord. By the wood of thy Cross, illumine me as well, and save me.”
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In Luke’s story of Jesus’s pretrial detention, we see Jesus as the Lamb of God who has taken upon himself the sins of the world – our weakness of Peter, our violent depravity of the soldiers, and our perversion of justice of the Council.
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In this last teaching, he does not give his disciples a list of theological principles to memorize, but he gives them an action to follow and a meal to share. Following after the teaching on the Apocalypse, the Last Supper is the dawn of the New Age.
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The heart of the Little Apocalypse speaks to our interior preparation, regardless of the turmoil we see surrounding us in the world and despite even the threats of violence and persecution and natural disaster.
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There are four questions and one parable that give us a preview of the remainder of the Gospel and of Jesus’s Death, Resurrection, and Exaltation.
The Gospel of Luke – Luke 20 – Questions in the Temple Read More »
The essential nature of repentance is not about telling God we are sorry and that we will try harder next time. Jesus is not talking about rule-breaking and punishment. Rather, what Jesus is talking about is being in a relationship with God or suffering the consequences of that absence, which is perishing into non-existence.
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Luke clearly shows us that Jesus enters Jerusalem as a triumphant returning King.
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