Scripture (1599)
  1. A left-handed man has a short sword and a message from God for a fat king.
  2. Jesus sets His face toward Jerusalem as the disciples struggle with greatness.
  3. Sometimes believers vigorously debate God, sometimes they nod a silent Amen. Together, their narratives paint a picture of a life of faith characterized by complexity and tension.
  4. We preach, teach and confess the virgin birth, and rightly so, but the actual sign is not the Virgin giving birth, it is the Child who is born.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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?
  8. Throughout the Old Testament, the seas and fish were symbols of the Gentiles. When Jesus ate fish, and called fishermen, he showed us that the mission to the Gentiles was about to begin in earnest.
  9. 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.
  10. This is what makes the reading from John so frightening and yet so exciting. Notice how Jesus appears. Not in miracles, not in marvels, but in relationships.
  11. One name repeatedly emerges from the heart and mind of Paul: Jesus. Jesus is Messiah, Jesus is Savior, Jesus is the world’s rightful and reigning King.
  12. For the Israelites, the language of restoration cannot be separated from the language of resurrection.
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