Worship Quotables

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• Second Chance
  There are two charcoal fires in the last chapters of John’s gospel, and Peter is at both of them. He warms himself by the charcoal fire in the court of the high priest. There he denies Jesus, and when Jesus looks at him across the courtyard he goes out and weeps bitterly. When Jesus rises […]
• Past, Present, Future
  On any given Lord’s Day, the worshiping church in the present fleeting moment grasps both the past (by commemorating through anamnesis the Lord’s resurrection and all that served to prepare for it) and the future (by affirming through prolepsis the fulfilled reign of God, the Day of the Lord). Both of these are made present […]
• The Whole Picture
  It was not that the disciples of Jesus were more stupid than other human beings and therefore “just didn’t get it.” It was that neither they nor we can “get it” until we know how the story ends. The birth, ministry, and death of Jesus must be understood in light of the resurrection or the […]
• The Central Affirmation
  In the earliest documents of the New Testament (the letters of Paul), the revelation of Jesus as the promised Messiah of God is intimately bound up with the death and exaltation of Jesus. Paul’s writings take no note of Jesus’ baptism; Jesus’ birth is mentioned merely in passing (“born of a woman”) in a discussion […]