(…continued) This is one of those places where we wish the Bible would tell us just a little bit more of the story. Mary and Joseph certainly knew from the circumstances of his birth that Jesus was to be someone very special, but they did not yet know all that would mean. So […]
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Painting above: Twelve-year-old Jesus Among the Scribes, Albrecht Durer, 1506 ———————– LUKE 2:41-51: Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed
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By Mark Tooley at: www.juicyecumenism.com A new Pew survey shows overwhelming majorities of Americans believe in the historical actuality of the Christmas story, including the Virgin Birth, the angels appearing to shepherds and the Wise Men following the star to Bethlehem. These majorities include young and old, Catholic and Protestant, black and white, male
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Retired pastor and author John Claypool tells the story of a discussion he had one time with his children’s babysitter, an elderly lady who lived a few blocks away. One evening when they returned, she met them at the door and was obviously very excited about something. She had in her hand a
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By C. S. Lewis, from Mere Christianity, 1943 (…continued) When you get down to it, is not the popular idea of Christianity simply this: that Jesus Christ was a great moral teacher and that if only we took his advice we might be able to establish a better social order and avoid another
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By the age of 30, Albert Schweitzer was already a world-renowned organist and expert on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. I don’t know much about music history, but it is said that his work changed the course of world-wide organ studies and performance. Also by the age of 30, that same
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Above: The Good Shepherd Warner Sallman (1892-1968) In Bible times there were lots of shepherds. Now, where I live, there aren’t any. Around here there are fences. Farmers harvest and store large amounts of feed so that the animals can be kept within the fences and fed there. In Bible times
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SPIRIT IN THE SKY by Norman Greenbaum, 1969 When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that’s the best When I lay me down to die Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky That’s where I’m gonna go when I
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(continued…) This is the theological problem of Holy Week: what kind of God do we have, the God of meek humility that goes to the cross on Good Friday, or the God of power who breaks forth from the tomb on Easter Sunday? The answer is in realizing that this is not a
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Today and tomorrow I will include the rest of the sermon from this past Palm Sunday that I began in Meditation #209 about Sam Childers and Mother Theresa. Holy Week presents us with a theological problem, a problem that has to do with the nature of God’s power; and that raises the question of
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