Tag: eschatology
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“Not Attached to Normal”
we are called to live our normal lives as people who are prepared to lay them aside at a moment’s notice
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“Words for the Great Ordeal”
John relays a message for Christians going through “the great ordeal” now. We still need these words: “Come, Lord Jesus!” and “Come, everyone who is thirsty!”
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Reflecting on 2 Corinthians 4 16 – 5 10
What gives us our ultimate hope? In 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10, Paul affirms his confident hope in the reward of eternal life, as promised by God and sealed in the Spirit, that comes from faith in and service to Jesus Christ. We are studying this text for Sunday, August 29. [Here are some notes on the…
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Utopianism
Some people treat “utopian” as a term of abuse. Not me. I don’t go along with the foes of art who act like totalitarianism is just around the corner whenever someone starts pointing out that since we ourselves have made our worlds into hells then we could unmake them and remake them, kinder and better.…
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Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
On this mountain YHWH Sabaoth will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he…
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Notes on Luke 18 1-8
Here are reading notes on Luke 18:1-8, “the parable of the unjust judge,” the common text for Sunday, July 15:
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Fifth Sunday in Lent
We spent some time in Sunday school this morning considering the meaning of worship for us in connection with the text of 2 Chronicles 7. We thought some about the meaning of numbers, specifically the extravagantly large numbers of sacrifices in 2 Chronicles 7, wondering whether what we were supposed to think in our own…
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Christian Doctrine (19)
Here are my summary notes for Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr., Christian Doctrine, Chapter 19, “What’s Going to Happen to Us? The Doctrine of the Christian Hope for the Future,” which is also (just in time for Christmas) the final chapter in this series: We know we are going to die, and everyone we know is…
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The Flavor of the Eschaton
Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect. (Hebrews 11:39-40) “No light falls on men and things without reflecting transcendence.” (Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics, 404) Source: Poynter.org
Matters of Interpretation 