'God’s Word' Tagged Posts
A Level Place
In the Gospel according to Matthew (chapters 5-7), Jesus gives an extended teaching we call the “Sermon on the Mount,” but Luke (in chapte 6) records Jesus giving many of the similar teachings on “a level place.” I grew up on a house that was near the top of a hill. The house in which I currently reside is about halfway up a hill. It’s…
Holy Disruption
“We tend to think in systems and continuities and predictability and schemes and plans. I think the Bible is to some great extent focused on God’s capacity to break those schemes open and violate those formulae.”-Walter Brueggemann What in the world could make the people of Jesus’ hometown so upset that they would chase him to the edge of a cliff…
Fulfilled In Your Hearing
When words are spoken and heard, something happens. Things that may have been a distant memory, or something we read once, come to life again when we hear them proclaimed. Maybe it’s that we hear it in a new way, pick up on a new detail, or the speaker emphasizes something different from what you would have emphasized. In last Sunday’s gospel reading…