On the recent Feast of the Baptism of the Lord we noted how this event is one of the very few that is included in all four gospels. The subsequent variety is clearly illustrated by the difference between last week’s reading from John’s gospel (John 2:1-11) and this week’s from Luke (Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21). In […]
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Jesus was human, like us, in all ways except sin. But from this starting point he becomes to us “the perfect man” – and the perfect man is obviously in control, in command of himself and the situation around him at all times, a man who understands everything about what will happen to him. I
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The four gospel writers introduce their accounts of God coming to be with us as a human being in four completely different ways. If you knew nothing of this story and picked up each of the gospels individually, you could easily think they were totally different stories – at least to start with. The place
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Just a week ago we were remembering and celebrating how Jesus was a part of a very ordinary human family, the smallest unit of human society. Only a week later we find ourselves having to recognize that Jesus was from the very beginning a player in the world of geopolitics and international relations (Matthew 2:1-12).
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