Testimony.
And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this is in his Son – 1 John 5:11 Human beings are storytellers. Most conversations we have with each other communicate events both current and in the past that we have experienced. Every year over a million new books are published in the United States…
Victory.
And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. – 1 John 5:4b There is an old hymn found in the This Far by Faith hymnal, “Victory is Mine”. After spending the morning researching the backstory for this hymn, I came up empty. The hymnal lists both the text and music as traditional.…
Caritas.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. – 1 John 4.12 “Who doesn’t want to be loved unconditionally?” asked our enlightened professor of systematic theology in the dimly lit back room of the tavern that we met at weekly for…
Surrender.
He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. – Psalm 23:2b-3 I believe it is safe to say that the 23rd Psalm is the most beloved and well-known psalm in the world. I’ve known many people have it memorized. It is the most…
Blink.
Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. – 1 John 3:2 When our first daughter was born, we received this advice, “Don’t blink.” As the weeks and months went by, we watched our little girl observe the world, curious about everything new happening around her. We couldn’t…
Cave.
We declare to you, what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at, and touched with our hand, concerning the word of life. – 1 John 1:1 One of the most well-known dialogues of Socrates from Plato’s Republic is the Allegory of the Cave.…
Stories.
For I have handed on to you as of first importance what I, in turn, have received; that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. – 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 I received my first bible…
Emptied.
…but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. – Philippians 2:7 Palm Sunday. Maundy (or Holy) Thursday. Good Friday. Easter (The Resurrection of Our Lord). We renew this week our most important story. We walk the steps that Jesus walked for us. We rejoice with palm branches at the…
Days.
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. – Jeremiah 31:31 “The days are surely coming…” are words of hope and consolation. Our experience in this earthly exile weighs on our hearts and we long for the days that…
Life.
So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it on a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. – Numbers 21.9 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes…
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