A SOWER WENT OUT TO SOW
“There is much to be said about cultivating and nurturing the seed—good seeds themselves need good soil, as this story makes clear—but consider the bombast of the sower: He has seed. Seed is to be sown. So He sows it. “
THE PERKS OF BIBLICAL LITERACY
“While the Christian church has historically (and rightly) clung to the cross of Christ, we’ve criticized the Jews for focusing on the crown. But biblical literacy demands we cling to both—because the prophets spoke of both.”
THE SACRED FELLOWSHIP MEAL
“What made ‘their number’ distinct enough from the rest of the people that they might be recognized as a social unit that could be joined? It wasn’t the venue. They assembled in the Temple. It wasn’t their unique spirit-filled worship services; the worship services were liturgical functions led by the Levitical class. The thing that set the earliest church apart from the rest of the Jewish people was their table.”