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Posts tagged "revelation"

Getting Everything Backward

Old Testament Reflection

Sometimes when we read the Old Testament we forget that the people living then did not have the New Testament with the full revelation of God that we have in Jesus. Still less did Job and his contemporaries, who did not even live in Israel and were probably not Jewish. There is no evidence that they had access to any of the Old Testament. So how did they know about God?

Read More suffering, theology, Ancient Near East, revelation

Maggot Theology

Old Testament Reflection

Faced with all this, Job asks the question we have all asked at some time. Why doesn’t God do something? Why does he let injustice go on and on? Job’s list of crimes is perhaps a conventional one. We can come up with a contemporary list, and ours is more extensive. TV coverage makes us aware, night by night, of the immeasurable evil all over the world. To the sins of individuals in Job’s list we can add the wars taking place, government corruption, atrocities in countries like the Congo, terrorism, genocide . . .

Read More evil, revelation

Focusing on Jesus Alone

New Testament Reflection

Photographers and film-makers know how crucial it is to focus on the right object to get the right picture. Unless done intentionally, blurred pictures do not communicate well. The Pharisees sent priests and temple helpers (Levites) to John the Baptist, thinking they needed a clearer picture about him, since the people took him to be a prophet. John’s answer was as cryptic as it was plain: “I am neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor even the prophet Moses spoke about. Instead, I am the voice preparing for the Lord’s coming.”

Read More revelation, Only Son, John the Baptist

You Will See Greater Things than These

New Testament Reflection

I enjoy a good book, written in such a way as to whet my appetite, making me eager to discover more and more and the story unfolds.

The future apostles Andrew, Simon Peter, Philip and Nathanael slowly discovered Jesus’ identity. They found out that Jesus was the Lamb of God, the Messiah, the one that Moses and the prophets wrote about.

Read More now, revelation, glory

One of These Things…

New Testament Reflection

My boys loved Sesame Street. Thus, I have watched a lot of Sesame Street shows. One of my favorite songs was the song that helped children group things. Perhaps you know it? “One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn’t belong. Can you tell me which thing is not like the others by the time I finish my song?”

Read More truth, revelation

What Would It Take?

New Testament Reflection

In this passage, Jesus finally gets some time alone to pray after the beheading of his cousin, John. After dismissing the crowd and his disciples, he spent a few hours on a nearby mountainside. By the time he descended, it was past midnight and the disciples were well out into the lake and working hard because the wind was against them. As the hours passed, the waves became higher, tossing the fishing boat every which way.

Read More Son of God, faith, revelation

Focusing on Jesus Alone

New Testament Reflection

Photographers and film makers know how crucial it is to focus on the right object to get the right picture. Unless done intentionally, blurred pictures do not communicate well. The Pharisees sent priests and temple helpers (Levites) to John the Baptist, thinking they needed a clearer picture about him, since the people took him to be a prophet.

Read More revelation, Only Son, John the Baptist

You Will See Greater Things than These

New Testament Reflection

I enjoy a good book, written in such a way as to whet my appetite, making me eager to discover more and more and the story unfolds.

The future apostles Andrew, Simon Peter, Philip and Nathanael slowly discovered Jesus’ identity. They found out that Jesus was the Lamb of God, the Messiah, the one that Moses and the prophets wrote about.

Read More revelation, glory, now

One of These Things…

New Testament Reflection

My boys loved Sesame Street. Thus, I have watched a lot of Sesame Street shows. One of my favorite songs was the song that helped children group things. Perhaps you know it? “One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn’t belong. Can you tell me which thing is not like the others by the time I finish my song?”

Read More truth, revelation

One Spirit, One Lord, One Baptism

New Testament Reflection

The Lord draws the whole episode to a conclusion. Two strangers, the one a Jewish apostle the other a Gentile captain, find that they have been united in the presence of God. They stand together as a sign of a deeper spiritual unity in Christ.

It took time, but their faithful obedience has finally clarified things.

Read More obedience, faith, revelation, Jesus’ message, prophets
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