Today is Trinity Sunday and the reading from Isaiah 6:1-8 is one of my favorite texts in the Bible. In fact, the Apostle John refers to this text in John 12:40-41; after reflecting on the fact that many of the authorities did not believe that Jesus was the Christ, he quotes from Isaiah 6, saying: “‘He has blinded their eyes …
Monthly Archives: May 2018
Today is Pentecost Sunday, the Fiftieth Day after Easter and the tenth day after Jesus’ ascension into heaven. All the traditional readings for today talk about the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Holy Trinity (Ezekiel 37:1-14; Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26ff). We worship one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but today is most especially associated …
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. (John …
The Apostle John says that there are “three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree” (1 John 5:7-8) In the Old Testament, priests were sanctified for service by washing with water and by the blood of a sacrifice, and by anointing with oil, denoting the bestowal of the Holy Spirit. In this way, …