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(Say the Jesus Creed morning and evening during Lent.) I like this book by Tom Wright: Surprised by Hope. And here’s a chp (#11) you don’t hear many Protestants talk about these days: purgatory, paradise, hell.

A short one: 44 ?The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field..

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(Say the Jesus Creed morning and evening during Lent.) I’m old enough to remember a story you may not know. When the Anchor Bible commentary series got off the ground, it was designed to be a new, ecumenical translation with notes on the translation and brief, very brief, comments. Then John Bright (Jeremiah) expanded what…

Here’s yet another interesting parable about Jesus’ teaching on the kingdom: Matthew 13:36 Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, ?Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.? 37 He answered, ?The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of…

(Say the Jesus Creed morning and evening during Lent.) What is the future hope for the individual? What does Tom Wright, in Surprised by Hope, mean by the “redemption of our bodies”? (chp 10)

We’re interested in how you are doing on your Lenten disciplines, but most especially we are hoping to hear some examples of how saying the Jesus Creed is helping in your ordinary life. What it does for me is to find its way into the ordinary cracks of life — at the grocery store, in…

Our next text, #41, is from a parable of Jesus: 18 ?Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the…

I saw this at Erika Haub’s site, moved over to the Out of Ur site and am now posting the Out of Ur post itself here. [I did not write this post.] The issue here for me is Christian participation in public education, which in some ways mirrors Christian participation in the State. What do…
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