Month: August 2016

Don: Jesus told the disciples that in his kingdom, the great are those willing to be servants,… “…just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:28) He had made a similar point earlier: They came to Capernaum; and…

Don: In the early Christian church, harmony reigned—as long as there was no diversity. Its members were all Jews, who shared the same racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. It was a pseudo community, as can be deduced from the fact that as soon as diversity was added (as soon as uncircumcised Gentiles were admitted) it…

Don: The ministry of Jesus is remarkable for its relationship to hospitality; in particular, eating. The gospel message—the good news about God—is bound up in the common, mundane practice of offering/taking food. The methods of Jesus, and the scathing rebukes of his contemporary critics, are often related to it. Jesus ate with tax collectors and…

The Stranger The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk– I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock, They may do ill or well, But they tell…