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11 mins read|01/23/21
The One Hebrew Word You Don't Want to Forget
In the Old Testament, to zakar ("remember") is not merely to rifle through the files in your head until you find that fact you’ve been searching for. To zakar is to employ your hands and feet and lips to engage in whatever action that remembrance requires. -
12 mins read|01/10/21
Gospel: John 2:1-11 (Epiphany 2: Series B)
We like to close with something great. We even have a saying for this behavior: “Saving the best for last.” God Himself has a way of saving the best for last. -
11 mins read|12/06/20
Gospel: John 1:6-8, 19-20 (Advent 3: Series B)
Whatever else may come, however worse it may get, the light has come and will come again. -
9 mins read|01/13/20
Gospel: John 1:29-42 (Epiphany 2: Series A)
This is what makes the reading from John so frightening and yet so exciting. Notice how Jesus appears. Not in miracles, not in marvels, but in relationships. -
12 mins read|11/02/18
How Luther Pointed Me to Christ in the Old Testament
Jesus is the Word of God. God’s Word—on two legs (John 1:14). I’d read it in the first chapter of John’s Gospel many, many times.
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