Tag: Lord
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Father, the hour is come
Jesus uses ‘Father’ as a relational approach to God, just like the trust which the boy Jesus surely must have had with Joseph, husband of His mother Mary, many times. Yet what does this mean to a disciple of Jesus’ teaching to address the Lord God as Father? Father, the hour has come There’s a…
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He will give you another Helper
Our situation now appears desperate in this place isolated from the world. In the past three years we have come to know what to expect, but now it seems that everything will change. Can you relate? In case you missed it, Church.., we’ve reached a pivotal point in the history of the world where the…
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In case you missed it, disciple
Disciples receive a New Command John witnessed previously a NEW COMMANDMENT of Jesus, who also said: You are My friends if you do what I command you. John 15:14 The setting was the table of Communion of the ‘last supper,’ our picture of the scene most likely too Italian and not accurately set in first century Jerusalem.…
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DEATH cries out! from many perspectives
A poem of death’s despair. From cries of pain Surrounded by suffering Entombed in death Men and women Hung their heads In death’s despair. + His pain I now know His suffering I deserve From this dark place of justice My sorrow must pierce. Roger Harned – TalkofJESUS.com “ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?” 22:1 אֵלִי אֵלִי…
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Lazarus – Death and Resurrection
Death and Resurrection Hosea 13:4 I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and no Savior exists besides me. 5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. “Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the…
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Amos – For those who turn justice into wormwood
Whatever is wormwood? Sometimes when we read the Bible, especially the Old Testament and specifically the true Prophets of Scripture, we fail in the imagery of the language of centuries and millennia long past. Amos uses a word “לַעֲנָה” we translate into English as wormwood and most of us naturally ask, “whatever is wormwood?” Truly,…
