Delacroix depicts a moment from the Crucifixion, recounted in the Gospel of John (19: 25–30), when Christ speaks to his mother, the Virgin Mary, and one of his disciples, John, just before he dies. Christ’s mother, dressed in blue and yellow robes, collapses into the arms of Mary ...
The artistic corpus of this gay expat agnostic—including his ‘The Raising of Lazarus’ acquired as an ‘Australian’ piece by the Vatican Museum in 1973—speaks to the dialogical interplay of modernity and tradition, centre and periphery, and faith and (heter)orthodoxy, as visualised by one ...
Jesus And Mary Speak To Recently Unemployed, The Poor, The Burdened And The Homeless Our Lady – Mary – Speaks To Women Who Have Never Conceived Our Lady – Mary – Speaks To The Woman Who Experiences Unrequited Love Our Lady – Mary – ...
This wonderful epistle [Galatians] speaks of the cross as between me and Egypt, between me and the wilderness, between me and my past, my wanderings; and now the cross is my Jordan by which I pass through death into the land where Joshua leads, the land that flows with milk and honey ...
But we cannot consider the manger without remembering the cross. J.I. Packer reminds us,“The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father’s will, Jesus Christ became poor and was born in ...
JESUS SPEAKS “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when he had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them,“Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”...
In fact, the apostle speaks thus for the very purpose of prompting every individual believer who hears him to feel and say the same. This, he indicates, should be their feeling just as much as his; a sentiment just as irresistibly regulative of their life. Why not? Do they not also ...
[iii]This phrase is from a famous passage by Albert Schweitzer: “He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew him not. He speaks to us the same word: ‘Follow thou me!’ and sets us to the tasks which He has to...
The flesh is clothed in such a desire, and it will be a snare to the one who speaks the Word of God. We cannot be afraid of other people, what they will think, how they react, if we do and say what we are led of the Spirit to do and say. Fear of man will cause us to ut...
Is the mark of the beast a tattoo, a computer chip, a bar code, etc.? Some despicable use of current computer technology? Should Christians fear the Second Coming of Christ because of the mark? First, the context (Rev. 13:11-14:5) of the passage speaks of a mark of the beast and...