June 29, 2014
This week’s sermon is posted with #Episcopal in honor of #SocialMediaSunday:
“It is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher …” Jesus said that in last week’s gospel. And I think early Christians took him pretty much at his word.
As near as I can tell, early Christians simply wanted to follow “The Way.” By which they meant they wanted to live the way Jesus lived. They wanted to follow his example.
Most of them didn’t care too much for theological explanations. (more…)
May 14, 2013
I know I’ve read chapter 24 of Genesis before, though not necessarily as a unit. But I’ve always been inclined to dismiss it simply as “they found the boy a bride.” I’ve never really looked at the chapter.
It comes right after the story of Sarah’s death, and Abraham’s purchase of land in the Promised Land for her burial, and her burial. Abraham, for the first time, is a land owner. It sounds like Isaac would have been born when she was about ninety years old, give or take a year or two. She died when she was 127 years old. So Isaac was probably 35 plus years of age at the time of her death.
Always assuming we’re supposed to pay any attention to ages in a chronological sense. (more…)
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