A Parable about the Most Humble Power in the World
Parables bring disciples into a different relationship with learning. They take away from us our penchant to master the material and lead us to the place where we are mastered by the Messiah.
Parables bring disciples into a different relationship with learning. They take away from us our penchant to master the material and lead us to the place where we are mastered by the Messiah.
The Kingdom of God will not be manipulated into any empire’s establishment. The knowledge and wisdom of God’s Kingdom is revealed only to the humble.
With Jesus, normal is as fixed as the sun. He is our norm. Because of the Holy Spirit, his life is our possibility and it’s the most normal thing in all creation.
The kind of person who blasphemes the Holy Spirit is not the kind of person who is worried about it.
So often authority gets couched in terms of enforcement of the law. For Jesus and his followers, authority became the license and empowerment to help people.
If a person can be filled with the Holy Spirit, they can also be half full, or even running on empty.
Something happens when a single person becomes profoundly present to another person in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Human limitations are transcended by Divine Presence.
For Jesus fasting was not about faithfulness to practice. Fasting was a means to intimate fellowship.
Jesus loves sinners and he is willing to walk right into the heart of sin, even if it looks bad; even if he gets accused of going soft on crime, because he loves sinners that much.