Blogging Towards Sunday, September 23, 2018
Matthew 4:23-5:4 & Isaiah 61:1-4, 8, 10-11 The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12) are identified as the essential teaching of Jesus. Recorded in Matthew, within the larger section of the … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, September 16, 2018
Matthew 4:23-5:3, 15:21-28 We begin our Fall series on the Beatitudes with the first of the 8 sayings of Jesus recorded in Matthew 5:1-12. They are the foundation … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, August 26, 2018
John 9:1-41 Today’s passage from the gospel story of the life and teaching of Jesus has been written masterfully by the Apostle John. The care with which John draws … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, August 12, 2018
Matthew 31:31-32 The gospel of Matthew is believed to have been written for Jewish believers in and followers of Jesus who most likely lived in and around modern-day Syria. … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, July 22, 2018
Psalm 137; Jeremiah 29:4-7 We live in a time of greater cultural shift and change. Phyllis Tickle called it the “Great Emergence,” comparing it to a 500-year yard … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, July 15, 2018
Romans 5:1-11, 18-21 (the Message) The pastoral letter we call Romans is the chef-d’oeuvre of the work of the apostle Paul. This note to the church … Continue reading
Blogging Towards May 13, 2018
Revelation 13 If God came in Jesus into the world to turn it right side up, defeated sin and death on the cross, and if the Spirit of God … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, May 6, 2018
Revelation 6:1-8; 7:9-17 The glimpse of the heavenly adoration of God and the Lamb on the throne, transitions to a new sight: the breaking of the seals and … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, April 29, 2018
Revelation 5:1-13 Revelation 5 continues the awesome image, first begun in chapter 4, of mysterious beings, elders, living creatures, thousands upon thousands of angels. The poetry of the … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, April 22, 2018
Revelation 4:1-11 While we often think of Revelation as a book of condemnation and apocalyptic destruction, it’s actually one of pastoral encouragement towards liberation, a theological introduction of … Continue reading
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