Your life purpose in one or two short sentences – help from John the Baptist.
John the Baptist is one of the great Advent people from Scripture. In the Gospel of John 1:6-8 and 19-28 John the Baptist comes across as having a very strong sense of self, and his life calling. He is to point the way to Jesus. When the religious leaders grilled him...
The Gospel is never neutral. Starting with John the Baptist it shakes up worldly powers.
The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. Mark 1:1 That sounds very nice and innocent as an introduction, until you realize that the Caesars claimed to be divine, and that the Roman peace they enforced was also proclaimed as good news. At the time...
Sheep, goats and the great crowd of the needy. They are all parts of each one of us.
Am I a sheep or a goat, or part of the great crowd of the needy? Checking back later in the day. In the parable, sheep are nice and get to heaven, goats miss out. A quick reading, with no context, makes it sound like works righteousness rules, so that when we do bad...
