Tag: corinthians

  • From Palm Sunday to Pentecost

    No, your not looking at the wrong picture. NEXT – Pentecost 2025 of the Common Era Doesn’t Holy Week from Palm Sunday to EASTER look about the same every year? I wrote a SERIES for Lent last year too — which of course culminated with Easter Sunday. Check it out (from Easter, 2024) if you’d…

    HOLY HOLY HOLY WEEK Easter A.D. 2023 HOLY HOLY HOLY is the Lamb
  • agapē a fruit of Love from a Higher Branch

    Charity (agape) This is our chief aim, the unconditional love of the Father given to us through his Son. Affection, friendship and romantic love are each the training ground for charity to grow. It’s also a rival to the three. C.S. Lewis – Four Types of Love Even with a half-dozen mentions of the agape…

    agape agapetos agapao 'Amazing Love, How can it be?
  • Consecration, Ceremonies and Rites

    Two weeks ago in my Saturday Post SERIES addressing the jargon of the church I asked, “Can you picture a process of ‘consecration?’“ That’s right and an important view of occasions of consecration. We also defined anointing, but today I’m not quite ready for ‘sanctification’ without first briefly examining what some view as consecration in…

    Jewish rite of passage a young man reads from the Torah for his Bar Mitzvah