“Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.” These are Jesus Christ’s word to us, as we read in Luke 6:27-38 today. In truth, what our world needs much more of is mercy. Jesus points out that God “is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.” God makes the sun to rise on both good and evil, and sends rain …
Monthly Archives: February 2019
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked… but his delight is in the law of the Lord,” is in Psalm 1. Likewise in Jeremiah: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man… Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord” (Jeremiah 17:5ff). And Jesus tells the disciples something similar in Luke’s Gospel: “Blessed …
In both Isaiah 6 and Luke 5, there is an encounter with the Holy Lord God which shakes the person who encounters Him. In Isaiah, the prophet is caught up before the throne of God. The six-winged seraphim are flying around the throne; with two wings they flew, with two they covered their feet (so as not to give offense …
Prior to their period of captivity in Babylon, the people of Judah worshipped in the temple in Jerusalem. But, after they were taken out of Judah and brought into Babylon and away from the temple, they had to find another way to worship, since the temple was no longer available to them. So, they developed the synagogue. This was a …