2013-11-02

How we've miss-read the gospels

Gospelling..

Dear brothers & sisters,

here is a link to a talk by N.T.Wright that I’m mulling over at the moment: “Putting the Gospels Back Together: How We’ve All Misread Our Central Story” (in case you want to mull it over with me, & then give me/us your thoughts too, in this blog).


Bishop Tom Wright – Putting the Gospels Back Together: How We’ve All Misread Our Central Story




2013-05-22

Look at Jesus, then, more.. respond to his "soft" call

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What a beautiful way 
to use the gospels to
lead our spirits to pray,
to interchange with you!

What's this amazing thought?
It's not from this young pup,
it comes from what He wrought!
His glorious "looking up"[1].

He who was rich, became
poor, that we might become
richer than words can name.
I know that that seems dumb.

Here is the Way - Love's course;
dain't hold it's  rights as "higher",
seeks to woo, not to force
or "make", but to inspire.

Hence visions, voices, dreams;
which could be just madness.
Not all is what it seems:
don't just run from sadness,

grief, suffering, and death;
we must embrace this lot,
that Jesus life & "breath"
be ours to stop the rot

of "image-in"-ation,
beginning in this life;
"on Earth, as in Heaven",
to match him, as his wife[2]!




[1] Some of the times when Jesus raised his eyes up: as a Jew, maybe every time he prayed {e.g.  at his baptism?, on the mount of Transfiguration (where Luke tells us he prayed), & after the seventy(-two) returned (Luke10:21ff )},  certainly in “prayer” before  - feeding the 5,000 (Mk6:41), healing the deaf mute (Mk 7:34),  at Lazarus’ grave (Jn11:41), praying personally to God for his glory & for us (Jn 17:1), maybe in Gethsemane, or even on the cross, or to Zachaesus, before inviting himself home to Zac’s house for a meal (Luke 19:5),  inviting Philip to join in on “the problem of the 5,000 hungry families”(Jn6:5), and in the Temple where he noted the Rich people & the Widow giving gifts at the Temple (Lk 21:1).
[2] Thinking from the point of view of those early apostles, not during the visit, but after it, realizing that they had touched & eaten with “the very WORD (or “FORCE” in a STAR-WARS-ish way) of  LIFE. “We beheld his glory, the Glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace & truth…”. Their conclusion (reached from the startling facts of his life, his prophecies, his power, his insight, and the scriptures etc) that he was the Eternal WORD, THE Son of God, The Second (Son of) Adam!- needing a wife, to not be alone, & the confidence that God was indeed preparing one for him (with his own spirit in her). As Jesus un-ashamedly spoke of himself as a bridegroom, now it has grown from the Jewish conception of the people of God being seen as a bride of Yahweh, to the new people of God being a bride for Yeshua, Yahweh’s Son. His DNA is to be taken, and made to make a matching pair, so still bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh…. He is so big, so real, & so loving, that all of us (the x Billion humans who have lived, & will ever live) are like the cells in a living being, a woman, & do not exhaust or overpower, or over-love him. …




2013-01-07

The News is GOOD!

Very good news about World Leadership.


There is to be one world government & the "High Emperor" (Terminology still being worked out) has been chosen. Wow, I can't wait. Well, I will wait, but it (or rather He) is the only one I'd trust:

Joshua Bar-Joseph.



(meanwhile, let those on his side against THE MACHINE, do the kind of things he is on about, till he is revealed. The GoodNews for this world is, as Alan Hirsch has put it (https://youtu.be/mwBEWNn4FTw)