Jesus Crossed Boundaries: God and Sin. “The next day, John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and exclaimed, ‘Look! God’s Lamb! The One who is taking away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). In other words… Look everyone, there is God’s Passover lamb! He is the lamb sent from God, the pure blood …
Jesus Crossed Boundaries: The Written Torah and the Living Torah. God created many fixed boundaries in His creation of the universe. Some of these boundaries, separating male and female, light and dark, holy and unholy, the Sabbath Day, good and evil, love and hate, and many other examples, were not intended to ever be crossed. …
Jesus Crossed Boundaries: Heaven and Earth (Introduction). God created many fixed boundaries in His creation of the universe. Some of these boundaries, separating male and female, light and dark, holy and unholy, the Sabbath Day, good and evil, love and hate, and many other examples, were not intended to ever be crossed. But there were …
Jesus Crossed Boundaries: The Acceptable and the Rejected. God created many fixed boundaries in His creation of the universe. Some of these boundaries, separating male and female, light and dark, holy and unholy, the Sabbath Day, good and evil, love and hate, and many other examples, were not intended to ever be crossed. But there …
Biblical Boundaries – Good and Evil “Just as there is a scientific order to nature, so then there is a moral order, and it consists of keeping separated the things that are separated, and maintaining the boundaries that respect the integrity of the world God created and seven times pronounced good. The Torah is telling …
Biblical Boundaries: Holy and Unholy. “Just as there is a scientific order to nature, so then there is a moral order, and it consists of keeping separated the things that are separated, and maintaining the boundaries that respect the integrity of the world God created and seven times pronounced good. The Torah is telling us …
Biblical Boundaries: Sabbath Day and the Workweek. “Just as there is a scientific order to nature, so then there is a moral order, and it consists of keeping separated the things that are separated, and maintaining the boundaries that respect the integrity of the world God created and seven times pronounced good. The Torah is …
Jesus Crossed Boundaries: Life and Death. God created many fixed boundaries in His creation of the universe. Some of these boundaries, separating male and female, light and dark, holy and unholy, the Sabbath Day, good and evil, love and hate, and many other examples, were not intended to ever be crossed. But there were some …
Biblical Boundaries: Male and Female. “There is a precise choreography to the moral and spiritual life. Precision matters. Order matters. God created order in the natural universe. We are charged with creating order in the human universe. That means painstaking care in what we say, what we do, and what we must restrain ourselves from …
Gospel Song – Give Me Jesus. This powerful hymn enjoys a really interesting and instructive history. A White methodist minister, Rev. Jacob Knapp, published this song in 1845. The enslaved African American community picked it up in 1867, adapted it to their unique situation, and it has been considered a traditional spiritual ever since. I rejoiced …
Divine Disgust – The Crooked Heart. “Enough! How long will you defend the evil-doers? How long will show kindness to those who do wicked things? You’re here to defend the defenseless, to give justice to the weak and fatherless, to maintain the rights of the oppressed and needy. Your job is to rescue the powerless …
Divine Disgust – The Way of the Wicked. “Enough! How long will you defend the evil-doers? How long will you show kindness to those who do wicked things? You’re here to defend the defenseless, to give justice to the weak and fatherless, to maintain the rights of the oppressed and needy. Your job is to …