The Lord’s Dinner
The Lord’s Dinner: Restoring the Common Meal to the Center of the Churches’ Common Life One of the curiosities of historic Christianity is that we participate in a meal – the Lord’s Supper – which is not a meal at all, but the merest token of a meal, a fragment of bread and a sip […]
ADVENT 2022
CHRISTMAS DAY It is at Christmas that we can remember the remarkable humility of Jesus, who came into this world like any other baby, vulnerable, weak and helpless, even though he was God the Son, equal to and completely one with the Father and the Holy Spirit. He humbled himself, even to death on the […]
Teaching the Gospels, Part Two: Look Through the Eyes of the Eyewitnesses
The Gospels, of course, focus on Jesus, as we discussed in the first part of this series. But the Gospels focus on Jesus on the basis of eyewitness accounts, as Luke says when he explains how he wrote his book: “Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among […]
Teaching the Gospels, Part One: Finding Jesus in the Gospels
“Teach the Gospels!” That’s a journey worth the travel, an adventure worth the price. In the Gospels we meet Jesus in person, hear his voice, see him die and rise again, and learn his ways. Teaching the Gospels can be a dynamic and life-changing experience, an encounter with the living Lord. But it’s not a […]