by afladmin | Jul 1, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn In light of the text from John 4, I want to make a few observations on Jesus’ encounter with a sexually and relationally broken woman. While there are a myriad of helpful observations to make from this passage, I’ll limit them to...
by afladmin | Jul 1, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn The translation above is not common, but I trust uncontroversial. But let me defend it. The literal meaning of the word often translated “forgive” in the Old Testament is nasa’, which means to bear or to carry. It is the word behind...
by afladmin | Jun 26, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn In today’s Gospel lesson there are three people. There is the woman, “a woman of the city, who was a sinner,” a woman who wept at the feet of Jesus and anointed him there. Then there is Simon. Presumably law abiding Pharisee, he sees...
by afladmin | Jun 26, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? (Luke 18:8). What does this mean? In the Gospel lesson we find a widow who has nothing with which to persuade her judge—and an unjust judge at that—to come to her aid. Nothing...
by afladmin | Jun 25, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people. But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, added this to them...
