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Subtitled: the little Lord Jesus, no sabre he takes??
It's an interesting concept and I've thought about it too - but no time to go see this year, so I'll be doing the "Christmas adverts" for Midnight I think!
Someone this last week reflected on it for Thought for the Day (R4), I recall it was rather good...
Baby Jesus: The Force Awakens
Baby Jesus: The Force Awakens - working title of a sermon not yet (and maybe never will be) written.
Enjoyed this John. JTB seems to be a paradox, reigning fire and brimstone, then telling them to go home and share their possessions, not to cheat or extort money from others. Were Jesus' sermons written back into John's ministry or can these two images of John be reconciled? I rather like the line, 'be worthy of your repentance' as it calls people into dialogue with what is going on, rather than judgement being something far off at the end of time - if your come to be baptised - let it change your behaviour!
Pob Bendith from the wet hills of North Wales
The judgement of Jesus and the Judgement of John (2015)
... When Jesus makes judgements, he does so as a vulnerable one, as one exposed to the deathly powers of others. Rather than being prepared to destroy to assert his own power, Jesus is prepared to be destroyed, to give everything away in the cause of love and life. Jesus’ judgement has a very d...
Hi John,
Good to see you are back in action as it were. This is good and not a million miles from where mine went yesterday either! I always appreciate this passage, because the theologising of John seems to melt into the background. (for once!)
Man up #1 - If only you had been here, my brother would not have died
Ezekiel 37.1-14, John 11.1-45 Sparkford, Weston Bampfylde, Lent 5, 6 April 2014 ‘If only you had been here, my brother would not have died.’ In John’s gospel, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead prefigures Jesus’ own resurrection, it reveals his identity as The Resurrection an...
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