For the monk, everything, all things, if beautiful were worthy of sculpting into something praiseworthy for God, and as a means to draw ever deeper into God’s mysteries. But we may also take something from scholastic theology, because we seek not only to communicate to each other, we seek to communicate with the wide world, to open eyes to the glorious revelations of God all around us.
Hebrews: Scorched Earth
It is hard to know what exactly was meant by this extreme measure, but it seems this was real, and was intended for ultimate good.
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Gospel of John, The Life is in the Blood
Jesus delivered what was very likely his most offensive sermon every preached. It would cost him the majority of his disciples, and act as a turning point in his public ministry.
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Gospel of John: Belief or Abandonment
In the face of either receiving a hard truth because it comes from God, or rejecting a hard truth and therefore having to reject God, Peter spoke for himself and ten of his companion disciples when he said they would accept Jesus as a package deal. He did not realize it, but he was not speaking for all.
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Gospel of John: Life-Giving Feast
Jesus had delivered possibly the most offensive sermon ever given in his time, a message so viscerally horrifying, so unspeakably grotesque, that many must have been left actually speechless.
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Gospel of John: Flesh and Blood
D.L. Moody once said “One day you’ll read that D.L. Moody is dead. Don’t you believe it! I’ll be more alive on that day than I have ever been before!”
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Gospel of John: Manna from Heaven
It was a new aspect of the bread that would not perish. Not only would the bread itself last into eternity, but all who ate of it would also last into eternity.
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Gospel of John: John Beheaded
When the disciples saw all those people, what must they have been thinking? Instead of providing their hoped-for rest and retreat, it seemed God was going to ask even more of these physically exhausted and emotionally spent men.
