New Testament (1597)
  1. Mary, Martha and the Lord's Prayer.
  2. Neither the disciples nor Paul expected a resurrected Messiah, so something has to account for their dramatic transition from faithless to fearless in the days/years following Jesus’ crucifixion.
  3. The followers of Jesus have a function to perform. When they do not perform it—that is, when they are not being themselves—the world suffers.
  4. Paul says Christian faith means confessing Jesus is Lord, beginning at the Cross, and owning the historical fact that God raised Him from the dead.
  5. Jesus tells a parable about a “Good Samaritan” in response to a lawyer trying to trap Him.
  6. Our first mistake in thinking about the blessed life is we expect to experience it fully in this life.
  7. This passage, above all others, speaks most fully about Jesus as the elder brother, the firstborn, of a large family; the family of God the Father, Creator of humankind.
  8. Jesus sets His face toward Jerusalem as the disciples struggle with greatness.
  9. The Church becomes anti-church when the new world order Christ inaugurated by eliminating demographic division through the commonality of Baptism is exploded by allegiance to cults of personality.
  10. This is the wonder which is present in the calling of the disciples. Not how they drop their nets to follow Jesus, but that Jesus does not need to go far to find disciples. He chooses the people He lives among.
  11. The children of Israel are on the fast-track to bondage. What is so tempting about foreign gods and why do the people turn to them so quickly?
  12. Jesus foretells His death more than once and the disciples don’t understand it. Jesus says all who follow Him must take up their cross.
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