christianity
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Preface Chapter 1: The Prologues to Mark, Matthew, and Luke *This essay covers Mark 1:1, Matthew 1:1, and Luke 1:1-4. Beginning with the Gospels’ prologues is a useful entry point because each Gospel’s opening line reveals what its author thinks the Gospel is for. Mark opens by announcing a theological category (good news); Matthew opens…
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https://embed.acast.com/661db71717216800165394bf/68c4ac3986eb67a6f63f4900 Fox News Host Jessie Watters: “Everybody’s accountable and we’re watching what they’re saying on television and who’s saying what,” Watters said, naming “the politicians, the media, and all these rats out there.” In 1942, Fritz Hippler made the film “The Eternal Jew” as Nazi propaganda. The film compares Jews to rats that carry contagion,…
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“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, and absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. […] “Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought repeatedly, the…
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Quote: Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance…
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