meant that Jesus
first had to be
sent to the lost
sheep of the
house of Israel
whom God had
called to be a
light to the Gentile world.
God the Father
confirmed Christ’s
Messianic claims
when He spoke
from heaven saying:
this is My Son
in Whom I am
well pleased.
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It was David that
of this Psalm,who was callingon the Lord toprotect him,and to helphim speedily.There are timeswhen God’s helpis a long timecoming, but Davidhad an urgentneed that requiredimmediate attentionand his wordsreflected the urgency,as he cried out,‘O Lord, I callupon You;hasten to me!Give ear to myvoice whenI call to You! ‘(Referring to the Psalm 141in the Holy Bible)
A true Christian mystic can never
No one can dismiss the Man Christfrom his interior life on the pretextthat he has now entered by highercontemplation into directcommunication with the Almighty God.
Let not negative thoughts rule over you.
Let not your brain rule over you.You rule your brain.If your thinking faculty rules over you,You will be considered mad.Let not your thoughts control you.Thoughts are only thoughts.
His Kingdom
misfits and theragamuffins.You don’t haveto try harder;failures are welcome.Don’t have tounderstand everything;the baffled are freeto come on in.You don’t haveto be the faithful one;prodigals havea seat at the table.He’s looking forhearts that will follow Him.
In major cultural centers,
viewed as antiquatedand oppressive.Social pressureno longer exists forpeople to go tochurch and inmany parts ofthe western worldthere is socialpressure not to go.(It is the philosophy of lovethatChrist preached and practisedthat attracts a thinking generation.)
We move beyond
dualism that isthe underlyingphilosophicalassumptionof the nihilisticself-made worldto a visionof the world as aco-creation.Human agents ceaseto be willful subjectsand instead emergeas disclosers ofmeaningwho creatively unfoldthe value of thingsin the world in whichwe play an active part.