Tag: authority
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Luke 7 1-10
We are studying Luke 7:1-10 for Sunday, October 20. The text is the story of Jesus’s healing of a centurion’s servant. [ Notes on the text are here.] Here are a few questions about the text we might want to consider: The centurion “sends” representatives, “elders of the Jews,” with the request for healing for…
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Fourth Sunday of Easter
The class after worship had agreed to consider the topic of sin this morning. What is it? What do Christians believe about it? That kind of thing. As providence would have it, our pastor had the task of leading the discussion. He thought it would be a good idea to look at Genesis 1 –…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Matthew 28 16-20 and Acts 1 6-8
We are studying two short texts, Matthew 28:16-20 and Acts 1:6-8, for Sunday, April 29. Both concern Jesus’ last instructions to “the eleven,” after his resurrection and just prior to his ascension. [Some notes on these texts are here.] Here are a few questions about these texts we might want to consider before or during…
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Unfinished Reading
But it is the same book. And naturally these incidents bring up again questions of what people see when they read a book, and why one person sees one pattern and nothing at all of another pattern, and how odd it is to have, as author, such a clear picture of a book, that is…
Matters of Interpretation 