“No Need For Signs!”
“No Need For Signs!”(Mk.8:10-22).“He got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha. The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven. He sighed deeply and said, ‘Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no […]
“Repent!”
“Repent!”(Mk.6:7-13).“Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits. These were his instructions: ‘Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra shirt. Whenever you enter a house, stay there […]
“Christ The Suffering Servant!”
“Christ The Suffering Servant!”(Is.53:1-12).“Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire […]
“May God Reveal Your Enemies To You!”
“May God Reveal Your Enemies To You!”(Jer.11:18-20).“Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree […]
“The Truth That Hurts!”
“The Truth That Hurts!”(Gal.4:12-20).There is a historical period called “the age of the breaking of icons,” or, “Iconoclasm.” Literally iconoclasm means “image breaking.” Those who object to icon veneration are called iconoclasts. In the Ten Commandments(Ex 20:4), there is the prohibition against images.Putting up images is idolatry, which gives credence to iconoclasm.Iconoclasm may have happened […]