Today at Trinity Reformed Church, the young children of the church led the procession with palm branches. Here are some of the reasons for that. In part, we took a page from the worship of ancient Israel. At the climax of Israel’s liturgical year, everyone commemorated the wilderness period . . . . Continue Reading »
Isaiah 11:7-8: And the cow and the bear will graze; their young will lie down together; and the lion will eat straw like the ox. When Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, He immediately went to the temple. What He saw filled Him with outrage: Jews were going about their sacrifices and their . . . . Continue Reading »
Isaiah 8:21-22: They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and curse their king and their God, and look upward. Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into . . . . Continue Reading »
Isaiah 8:6-8: Inasmuch as these people refused the waters of Shiloah that flow softly, and rejoice in Rezin and in Remaliah’s son; now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them the waters of the River, strong and mighty— the king of Assyria and all his glory . . . He will pass . . . . Continue Reading »
Exodus 19:12: You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, Beware that you do not go up to the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall sure be put to death. Yahweh cannot remind the Israelites often enough not to touch the mountain. “Beware that you . . . . Continue Reading »
Revelation 20:4: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. In our sermon today, we’ve heard about how Moses set up a system of courts in Israel. This doesn’t surprise us. Israel, after all, was a nation, we might even think a “nation-state,” . . . . Continue Reading »
Exodus 18:12: Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God. When Abram returned from defeating the kings who had taken Lot captive, Melchizedek met him with . . . . Continue Reading »
Exodus 17:10: Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. There are two locations in this story, and two groups of people. Down below, in the valley, Joshua and the armies of Israel fight the Amalekites. Up on the top of a hill . . . . Continue Reading »
In his recently republished New Creation , the late, delightful Herbert McCabe defends the priesthood of the plebs as roundly as anyone could want. Citing Hebrews, he claims that “there is an essential difference between the Christian community and the community of the Old Law, or any other . . . . Continue Reading »
Exodus 17:5-6: And the LORD said to Moses, “Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water . . . . Continue Reading »
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