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Plato was wrong: John 1:(1-9), 10-18
John is trying to describe an event, an advent, an epiphany without parallel.
God's arms: Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15
Paul’s daunting promise to the Romans haunts me: “Suffering produces endurance,” he assures the Romans and us, “and endurance produces character and character produces hope.” Recently I stood in the pulpit of my church and looked over the top of a white, 32-inch-long casket at a young couple from my congregation. Their six-month-old son, who had been happy and healthy just days before, had died in his sleep. The unfathomable suffering of the family was shadowed by a church filled with mourners for whom the scene enacted their most dreaded fears.
The waters of solidarity: Genesis 1:1-5; Mark 1:4-11
The baptism of Jesus is Mark's Christmas story.
So explain it to me: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15
This Sunday's readings provide Bible backup for a nonscriptural word.