Tag: Kingdom of God
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“There isn’t any there there” …
The ‘past’ doesn’t exist, except in our minds now. The ‘future’ doesn’t exist, except in our minds now. But ‘now’ has already gone by the time the word is said. SO, when you get ‘there’, there isn’t any ‘there’ there. ‘There’ is ‘here’, and life is ‘here’, or it’s nowhere. The picture and words are…
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Because Jesus was a Jew …
At some point, possibly in the 27 CE, beside the river Jordan, in a part of the world known to its Roman overlords as Palestine, a charismatic preacher, John by name, was holding forth to all who would listen to him. He was also baptising those who found themselves agreeing with his message, some of…
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Paul and the Bath Water
Like Jesus of Nazareth, Paul was a 1st century, ‘middle-eastern’, Jew. We can expect him to have different ways of seeing things from ours, and he doesn’t disappoint us. We have information, in the New Testament, about what’s said to have happened to him during his action-packed life. We shouldn’t forget, however, that Paul himself…
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