All of this is context for our interpretation of Ezekiel 36, with its insistent mixed blessing (which I lately realize is foreshadowed by Jacob’s lower back trouble marking him as blessed.) And it all points to Jesus’ embracing/deconstruction of shame and sin by which the foolishness of t...
tells us that in the garden of Gethsemane he went a stone’s throw beyond those closest to him, and there he knelt down and prayed. Thus we are discussing in the calling of the 12 apostles one of the four great crisis events of Jesus’ life. He went out into the hills to pray, a...
tells us that in the garden of Gethsemane he went a stone’s throw beyond those closest to him, and there he knelt down and prayed. Thus we are discussing in the calling of the 12 apostles one of the four great crisis events of Jesus’ life. He went out into the hills to pray, a...
Oct. 10, 1779. His love for historical reading and investigation developed in itself in early life. At twenty he made a profession of his faith in Christ. Religion did for him what is has done for so many thousands of