Mosaic Bellingham
Church • Bellingham, WA • 7 members • 1 follower
- Good News"Gospel" in the LLX (Septuigiant)
Isaiah 40:9English Standard VersionGo on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!” - Notice how Paul seems to echo this in his Ephesians "armor of God" poem. "Feet fitted with the gospel (good news) of peace"
Isaiah 52:7The Lexham English BibleHow delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns as a king.” - God has been working in the Samaritans. In the least expected people, God has been working.John 4:36–38English Standard VersionAlready the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
- Russ Fish has joined the group.
- We are supposed to be cloud computing. A cloud computer doesn't existed in the cloud, rather it exists in the real gritty world of everyday life, but it gets all it's power and direction from the cloud.Colossians 3:2English Standard VersionSet your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
- FoodFood is still needed post-resurrection! Yes! At our resurrection I would imagine similar rules aply. Party time!
- Freeing God from being a mere fate or destinyJames 1:13English Standard VersionLet no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
- All the Jews walking by on their way to and from the temple probably had to pass by Jesus with his plaque: "king of the Jews". Another failed attempt at liberation? Another quelled uprising? Or just the beginning.John 19:20English Standard VersionMany of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.
- I have no idea how he had enough strength to carry his cross even a block at this point, after the flogging and all.John 19:17English Standard Versionand he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
- Maybe an ultimate low point for the religious leaders. A denial of the longing for a messiah.John 19:15English Standard VersionThey cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
