11092022 – Luke 19. 1-10 I don’t usually get the opportunity to speak about this. The Greeks had two forms of time…one was called CHRONOS or “chronological time.” One minute follows the NEXT, minutes turn into hours, each hour is followed by another, hours turn into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, months into […]
09252022 – Luke 16. 19-31 According to the Harvard Business Review if you earn over $10,000 a year…you are in the top 14% of the WORLD’S RICHEST PEOPLE. I say this, just for “perspective.” And, because, as we know, everything is “relative anyway.” So, the “master storyteller” is AT IT AGAIN. With “a very few […]
06042022 – John 14. 8 – 17 So, at long last, the Day of Pentecost has arrived. What was once “a Jewish HARVEST celebration” has now turned into the BIRTHDAY of the church. Happy Birthday, by-the-way! The season of Easter OFFICIALLY CONCLUDES today! 50 days ago, EXACTLY WE celebrated the Resurrection of Our Lord! After […]
05262021 – Pentecost Part III The Day of Pentecost had come. The Promise that Jesus had told his followers to prayerfully wait for – had finally arrived. Pentecost was one of the three Jewish festivals in which individuals WERE TO JOURNEY to Jerusalem and appear before the Lord at the temple with their gifts and […]
05232021 – Pentecost! This is not just any day! This day has been hailed as the Birthday of the early Church. Prior to this – the frightened disciples were in hiding. They feared for their very lives and existence. After the Day of Pentecost, they start to find their voices, they start to find […]
O5222021 – The Day of Pentecost (John 15.26-16.15) Only the Author of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts writes OF a specific “day in the life” of “the Jerusalem community” when the spirit IS GIVEN. It is “our present belief” that those two books were written by the self-same individual. Traditionally […]
05032020 – John 20. 19-23 Pentecost That Jesus he was a “CRAFTY ONE.” But it really-truly-depended upon WHO you talked to… Some said he was “as FOXY” as they come, SLY, CUNNING, SLICK, he could talk his way OUT OF anything. And he always saw to it, that he WON every-single-argument or confrontation. […]
05302020 – John 20. 19-23 The disciples were AFRAID. We get that. They were huddled together behind locked and closed-tight-doors. You might have called them “scare-D-cats!” And WE, unfortunately, can relate to their predicament! We have been scared, too! They feared (not a pandemic) but rather, the Roman and religious authorities of their […]
You would expect this from Mark, but not from John. There is a feeling of “exasperation” in the air! Things are “getting tight.” The clock is ticking. Louder and louder… The cross is looming… Ever more — closer… The end is in sight. These are — some final words… Some “final teachings…” And the disciples […]