Like and share this collection of videos on YouTube. Each video features a young King David in the Temple, proclaiming the Gospel. Each is a striking reminder of deep connection between Jewish history, King David, and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The boy king is clothed as an initiate, recalling the Gospel account of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.
This is a dark time, and, as Luke writes his Gospel, it is a dark time for the Christian communities. Jesus has been crucified. Well then, so the logic of the Old Law states, Jesus could not possibly have been the Messiah. Except he was. Luke writes primarily for the communities of Greece, mostly pagan converts. There has been the great persecution of Nero. Jerusalem has been destroyed in the year 70 by the Romans [ … ]
William of Saint-Thierry reflects on salvation not as something we achieve, but as something we receive. From the beginning, he insists that God’s dominion is not oppressive power but saving love. To belong to God is already to be rescued, because serving God means being held within God’s care [ … ]
The Epistle To The Romans combines the occasional character of an early Christian letter with extended theological argument concerning law, the Law, covenant, sin, salvation, and the relation between Jews and Gentiles. Written probably in the late 50s AD, and during Paul’s stay in Corinth, the letter was addressed to Christian communities in Rome which Paul had not himself founded. Unlike several of his other letters, Romans was not written primarily in response to a specific local crisis already familiar to him. Instead, it functions partly as an introduction to his teaching and partly as an attempt to address tensions emerging within mixed Jewish / Gentile communities in the imperial capital [ … ]
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