6.22.2021
It has been said that I and my sites are too cryptic. Surely the same can be said of Jesus words. The essential truths are inaccessible to all but those dying to know them.
It has been said that I and my sites are too cryptic. Surely the same can be said of Jesus words. The essential truths are inaccessible to all but those dying to know them.
6.06.2021
James, what the Dickens is your mission? Mission: Teachings Jesus' Joy
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5.27.2021
The approach to Jesus.
Now I want to become a really serious mountain climber but never being on a mountain or facing the risk or being on a rock face or all required. Four, I want to be a world-class ocean swimmer but never getting in the water oh, never the exhaustion, never the hours of swimming. So this is totally absurd correct but this is exactly what we have when we spoke called follow Jesus. Following Jesus means having some association with the name and some of the words and mostly followers with ideas that we like, totally on our terms, our way of thinking and acting and behaving and preferring. I want to speak French without a word of French French French ever being understood by me or spoken by me okay? Voice typing while traveling in the Wind. Corrections later maybe.
5.23.2021
5.13.2021
The entire secret to following Jesus is to see that his life on Earth was the most enviable ever then or now.
The entire secret to following Jesus is to see that his life on Earth was the most enviable ever then or now.
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3.01.2020
Instead of a society resting on coercion, exploitation, and inequality, Jesus desired to found a society resting on love, service, and equality. These new principles....
The fundamental virtue in the ethics of Jesus was love, because love is the society-making quality. Human life originates in love. It is love that holds together the basal human organization, the family. The...
Because Jesus believed in the organic growth of the new society, he patiently fostered its growth, cell by cell. Every human life brought under control of the new spirit which he himself embodied and revealed was an advance of the kingdom of God. Every time.....
Jesus had realized the life of God in the soul of man and the life of man in the love of God. That was the real secret of his life, the well-spring of his purity, his compassion, his unwearied courage, his unquenchable idealism: he knew the Father. But if he had that greatest of all possessions, the
No comprehension of Jesus is even approximately true which fails to understand that the heart of his heart was religion. No man is a follower of Jesus in the full sense who has not through him entered into the same life with God. But on the other hand no man shares his life with God whose religion does not flow out, naturally and without effort, into all relations of his life and reconstructs everything that it touches. Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
If we want to understand the real aims of Jesus, we must watch him in his relation to his own times. He was not a timeless religious teacher, philosophizing vaguely on human generalities. He spoke for his own age, about concrete conditions, responding to the stirrings of the life that surged about him. We must follow him in his adjustment to the tendencies of the time, in his affinity for some men and his repulsion of others. That is the method by which we classify and locate a modern thinker or statesman.