The Good Word

I appreciate that you have listened to me for so many days but I want you to walk beside me while I tell you something else Please please join me walk beside me I told you yesterday that Cleopas and I had decided or at least were thinking about walking home today Sunday and that is what we a

Today is Saturday We just sat on the floor and stayed hidden out of sight and prayed I have never seen so many people crushed in this way I sat without moving but it felt as if I were stumbling falling in the dark We did talk about Jesus but there was such a sense of loss in the room It wa

I would rather not talk to you today I have no idea what happened no idea what just took place After the meal the Apostles walked with Jesus to the garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives All of the Apostles but one Judas had already left The others said that there was a strange tension

The Twelve Apostles were sent to prepare for a supper in Jerusalem how many times have they shared a table together with Jesus over the years whether they actually had food or not when they had sat down to eat or had known what kind of food he would put on the table Jesus had supplied answers to

I am always worried when people go to the ldquo that rsquo s how Jesus did it rdquo arguments especially when Ned Flanders gets dissed in the process ldquo You don rsquo t think I should overturn your tables That rsquo s what Jesus did in the Temple rdquo ldquo Whoa I rsquo m sorry you don

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them they brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them and he sat on them A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road The crowds that went ahead of him and

My comments on Wednesday with respect to historical reality and ldquo deception rdquo in the Bible drove me back to some good friends books on interpretation of the Bible What I found disturbing in the original post on which I was commenting and in many of the comments which followed was this

ldquo For as the days of Noah were so will be the coming of the Son of Man For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away so too will be

The theme of renewal of new life runs throughout the readings for the Fifth Sunday of Lent More precisely resurrection from the dead runs through all of these readings This is the case even though the first reading Ezekiel 37 12-14 as does all of chapter 37 speaks literally of the whole house

Access to an article by Gerald McDermott from the April 2011 edition of First Things has been posted at the site for the past few weeks It is titled Evangelicals Divided and concerns recent theological fissures breaks or tensions – I cannot decide amongst these terms – concerning the role of Scr