4.5 Christmas Day Son of Mary If you have followed the symphony this far, you will have seen the great themes of our Bible coming together in the person of Jesus; I have tried to explore two very different strands: the ‘universal’ and the ‘particular’ the ‘universal’...
4.4 Jesus is Lord This is a strange one and one we need to rewind. We sing hymns – “Jesus is Lord, Creation’s voice proclaims it” and we see Lord as a theological word. But it wasn’t. Kurios is a Greek word used for a master, a boss, or as a way of addressing a...
4.3 Emmanuel Emmanuel means “God is with us”. Four short words but are there any other short sentences more profound than this one? If we had to sum up the gospel, the message to humanity, in just a few words, would this not be about as good and brief as...
4.2 Prince of Peace This title, from a prophecy of Isaiah, is echoed in the voices of the angels at Christmas. “Peace on earth” There is an immediate political challenge here, because Augustus claimed to have brought in the Pax Romana, Roman Peace, under which...
Week 4 Jesus 4.1 You shall call him Jesus for he will save his people from their sins. A great symphony returns to the key themes and develops them. While it moves to a climax and an end, it also re-works themes, and we find many of these themes re-worked in the key...
3.6 John John writes a very different type of account from the other three gospel-writers. Some suggest that he is like a Jazz-musician ‘riffing’ on the themes from the gospels, picking up a few key themes and developing them. It is rather nice to think that...
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