No longer shall you be called Abram; your name shall be Abraham, for I am making you the father of a host of nations. Genesis 17: 5 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? Or the prophets, who died? Who do you make yourself out to be? John 8: 53 In today’s reading…[read more]
If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8: 31-2 What is the source of freedom? In today’s gospel Jesus says that it is living in the truth, a truth we know by remaining in his word,…[read more]
But with their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses. Numbers 21: 5 The one who sent me is with me. John 8: 29 In today’s reading from the Book of Numbers we are reminded that the journey of the Hebrews from slavery to liberation was a difficult, tumultuous,…[read more]
Even if I do testify on my own behalf, my testimony can be verified, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going. You judge by appearances, but I do not judge anyone. And even if I should…[read more]
So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am from him, and he…[read more]
But Moses implored the Lord, his God, saying, “Why, O Lord, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand? Why should the Egyptians say, “With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill…[read more]
Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the son will do also. John 5: 19 We sometimes speak of contemplation as if it were a term of art, an object that we can grasp or an…[read more]
Then when he had walked off to the east with a measuring cord in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and had me wade through the water, which was ankle deep. Again he measured off another thousand and once more had me wade through the water, which was now knee deep. Again he…[read more]
Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. John 4: 48-51 Today’s reading from Isaiah offers us God’s…[read more]
Even the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him fell at his feet, screaming in a loud voice: “You are the Son of God.” Mark 3: 11 Today’s gospel follows from the closing lines of yesterday’s in which the Pharisees and Herodians are conspiring about how to destroy Jesus. In the very earliest chapters of Mark’s…[read more]
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