Chapter 10 – Who Did Jesus Think He Was? – Wright and Bird

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. Dean’s Sunday School – March 16, 2025 I am out town with family this week, and will send follow up quotes… Continue reading Chapter 10 – Who Did Jesus Think He Was? – Wright and Bird

Chapter 9 – The Profile and Praxis of a Prophet – The New Testament in Its World – Wright and Bird

Rafting on the Jordan River: Taglit Birthright Israel [Jesus] believed that Israel was at the cross-roads, that she must choose between two conceptions of her national destiny, and that the time for choice was terrifyingly short. This explains why, in his instructions to his disciples, he speaks of ‘towns where they receive you’ and ‘towns… Continue reading Chapter 9 – The Profile and Praxis of a Prophet – The New Testament in Its World – Wright and Bird

The New Testament In Its World – Chapter 8 – The Study of the Historical Jesus

Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene 1964 (By Gert Chesi) All of the quotes below are taken from The New Testament In Its World, NT Wright and Mike Bird, Zondervan, 2019. The Study of the Historical JesusThe quest for the historical Jesus, in fact, clearly began soon after Jesus’ death and is reflected in the writings of… Continue reading The New Testament In Its World – Chapter 8 – The Study of the Historical Jesus

Holy Ones Among Us

Project CanterburyLetters to Her Companions,by Emily Malbone Morgan.Edited by Vida Dutton Scudder,with a biographical sketch by Emily Sophie Brown.Privately printed, 1944. FOREWORD TO THE LETTERSby VIDA DUTTON SCUDDER On the fiftieth anniversary of the Society of Companions of the Holy Cross, Father J. O. S. Huntington, O.H.C., conducted a Retreat. At the last breakfast, at… Continue reading Holy Ones Among Us

The Greco-Roman Context of the Early Church – Chapter 7

Masonic Lodge of Israel Seal All notes below take from: NT Wright and Mike Bird – “The New Testament In Its World,”  Johnson Sunday School in the Garden Room Chapter 7 The Greco-Roman Context of the Early Church They [the Romans] ransack the world, and afterwards, when all the land has been laid waste by… Continue reading The Greco-Roman Context of the Early Church – Chapter 7