nbsp nbsp This brief notice Mark gives illustrates a number of points of his interest as he writes to Christians in Rome nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp First there is the fundamental central interest of the public life of Jesus the announcement of the presence of the Kingdom of God nbsp This means

The biblical passage which appears below and the subsequent paragraph are taken from the 2009 lenten meditations of the Anglican Church of Canada for March 27 hellip a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting lsquo Have mercy on me Lord Son of David my daughter is tor

R R Reno has judged me in a new post today http www firstthings com onthesquare p 1324 to be an example of the wagon-circling guild mentality of so many contemporary biblical scholars More than a circler of wagons though my earlier response to him is the equivalent of a clarion call Ti

nbsp Beloved Christ suffered for sins once the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous that he might lead you to God Put to death in the flesh he was brought to life in the Spirit In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited i

Have you ever noticed that Jesus begins and ends his public ministry in the wilderness ?

Ash Wednesday whose ashes symbolize mourning and penitence is also it seems to me a period of joyous return The Apostle Paul captures this sense of joy in the second reading today 2 Corinthians 5 20-6 2 Paul has written earlier in 2 Cor 5 that the love of Christ urges him on in his ministry