Posts Tagged ‘miracles’

  • E100-65: John 11:1 – 11:57: A miracle among friends

    Jul 16, 10 • E100, Jesus, JohnComments Off on E100-65: John 11:1 – 11:57: A miracle among friends
    E100-65: John 11:1 – 11:57: A miracle among friends

    What’s a little miracle among friends? Yet Jesus seems to avoid performing one that would have saved his friends great pain, only to perform a greater one! And then there’s the ominous clouds gathering that by the end of the chapter foretell the storm to follow. Noticing some detail of how John tells this great [&hellip...

  • E100-64: Mark 5:1 – 20: A miracle among pagans

    Jul 15, 10 • E100, Jesus, MarkComments Off on E100-64: Mark 5:1 – 20: A miracle among pagans
    E100-64: Mark 5:1 – 20: A miracle among pagans

    For this podcast I won’t deal with all the interesting questions about multiple demon possession, or even demons in pigs, but will focus on the beginning (and location) and especially the end of the story because they tell us why this story was remembered (though actually the pigs and the multiple demons do make it [&hellip...

  • E100-63: John 9:1 – 9:41: Who sinned? And who’s really blind?

    Jul 14, 10 • E100, Jesus, JohnComments Off on E100-63: John 9:1 – 9:41: Who sinned? And who’s really blind?
    E100-63: John 9:1 – 9:41: Who sinned? And who’s really blind?

    Notice the opening – beginnings are often important – and in this case that importance is highlighted when the theme is repeated, that’s another clue – we repeat things that matter! The man born blind is a great character, do enjoy listening to him “naively” running rings round the clever religious scholars 🙂 So, it’s [&hellip...

  • E100-62: Matthew 14:22 – 14:36: Walking on Water

    Jul 13, 10 • E100, Jesus, MatthewComments Off on E100-62: Matthew 14:22 – 14:36: Walking on Water
    E100-62: Matthew 14:22 – 14:36: Walking on Water

    As it does in Luke, Matthew’s account the feeding of the 5,000 follows after Herod speculating that Jesus is John come back to life, but Matthew used this opportunity to tell the gruesome story of John’s death. Luke moved quickly from John’s death, to tell of the disciples’ successful mission, whereas Matthew tell us that [&hellip...

  • E100-61: Luke 9:1 – 9:36: What’s the point of a miracle?

    Jul 12, 10 • E100, Jesus, Luke1 Comment
    E100-61: Luke 9:1 – 9:36: What’s the point of a miracle?

    The miracle stories in the Gospels (like the ones in the OT) are stories with the wow factor that’s part of all miracle stories – think of the ones we hear on the infomercials on TV 😉 They called this reading “Feeding the Five Thousand” but it comes in a context.  Luke (like the other [&hellip...

  • E100: Week 13: Miracle stories

    Jul 11, 10 • E100, Jesus, Luke2 Comments
    E100: Week 13: Miracle stories

    Everyone loves a good miracle story, the Infomercials are full of them, buy this exercise machine use it just 10 minutes a day and be instantly sexually attractive, sleep on our special magnets and your pain will go away and you’ll feel 30 years younger. Infomercial miracles sell things: it worked for me, you buy [&hellip...