Each Memorial Day, our nation pauses to reflect on those who have died in service to our country. And behind each sacrifice, lies a person who gave up their special moments in life so that we could enjoy ours.
Those words are included to help us reflect on sacrifice this Memorial Day and I think the [...]
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This week we celebrate Pentecost so I thought an image on the Holy Spirit would be appropriate.
Have you noticed that the Holy Spirit is often one of those tame images we have of God?
Most of the images I get when I think of the Holy Spirit and when I google it are the dove. Calm, [...]
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Celebrate! Today’s a big day right!
Today is Ascension Day after all, which within the calendar is supposed to be a major church festival. Of course, I had to admit that it wasn’t quite on my mind this morning as were Christmas and Easter. Let’s be honest, Ascension Day probably doesn’t even grab our attention as [...]
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As we approach Mother’s Day I was thinking about the relationship between Jesus and his mother. Most of the images of Madonna and child are kind of austere. There’s the blank faced Mary staring out at us and the holy Jesus with halo. Sometimes Mary at least looks vaguely happy and is cuddling Jesus a [...]
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I don’t know if you’ve seen this image or not, but it’s a relatively famous painting and I think an appropriate one to consider as we approach National Day of Prayer. I try not to go over the top, but we need to recognize the importance of our faith in influencing our country and the [...]
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Last week I was at a theological convocation in Austin talking about a topic called the Two Kinds of Righteousness. I won’t go into all the details of that, though maybe I could post a couple of posts on the topic from the two presenters. Roughly speaking, this theological concept says that we have a vertical [...]
Ok, so I generally try to pick a single image to interpret, but I’ve never looked much at images of foot washing and so when I started looking around, I found quite a few that I like. I almost added an icon as well, but I thought I would save the icon for our resurrection [...]
The Lion and the Lamb. I pick this image because these two concepts are so tightly bound together in the narrative of the Passion we are entering into this coming week. In this image the two blend together and in all the stories Jesus blends the two.
Think about it for a second. On Palm Sunday [...]
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This is an image of the famous story of Jesus calming the storm (Mt. 8:23-27). I talked about this story a couple of weeks ago in a sermon and this was the question I focused on as we discussed the issue of fear. I love this image. Here you see Jesus, cast [...]
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Here are two images of Jesus in tears. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a couple of reasons lately.
One, I recently finished a novel called, Silence. It’s by Shusaku Endo of Japan, and is an interesting read. It’s about missionaries and their experience with persecution in Japan. The question, will they give up [...]
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