Tag: Power of God

  • Dan

    Tossing tables and disrupting worship

    Matthew 21:12-22 is a passage I’m very familiar with in my reading… and know so little about in context of the story. For too long I have looked at each part without regard to the whole.

  • Dan

    Ignorance of the Word

    Reading for Today: Psalm 55, 74 Lam 2:1-9 2 Cor. 1:23-2:11 Mark 12:1-11 In his march to the Cross, Jesus goes straight at the religious leaders. When spiritual authority is gone, all that is left is theological wordplay, manipulation, and outright intimidation. It still happens today.

  • Dan

    Holy Week — Jesus shows us what we NEED to know

    Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. (Matt. 22:29)

  • Dan

    Understanding the power of the Kingdom right here and right now

    One of the things I love about NT Wright’s writing is he uses phrases that scare the living daylights out of people like me who are used to the abuse of those words. When Wright dares to move into territory that sounds a lot like the old “Kingdom Now” theology I studied in college, I get nervous. Yet, he refuses to surrender…