If We Don’t Do Anything
When did you decide to hold back from holding back chaos and destructive forces?
You Still Don’t Get It?
Marvelous evocative things. People around Jesus saw and heard marvelous things and were overcome with astonishment. They saw and heard evocative things but were not overcome with understanding. Their failure or unwillingness to grasp what was happening had me wonder why as I memorized the first seven chapters of Mark’s gospel account.
Lip Service
Is Jesus undermining the Pharisee’s Israel restoration project that is attempting to force into effect an end of history kingdom of God that they approve of?
Days of Waiting, Watching, and Waning?
We, a community of those who confess the lordship of Jesus Christ, met on the Lord’s Day to hear again about the Day of the Lord.
Sea Change
Scripture begins by telling an old story and ends by retelling the old story with a new and final outcome. Both narratives involve chaos and creation.
Evil’s Last Grasp
The power of evil was all around them and they were looking for a divine rescue.
Reentry
“Why are you clinging to God? Here Gagarin flew into space and didn’t see God.”
Surface Readings
Impending doom has been in the news during my entire lifetime.
