On giving Eugene Peterson's The Message another chance
Lent | Fifth Sunday in Lent (Year B)
Jeremiah 31:31-34 (Psalm 51:1-12 or Psalm 119:9-16); Hebrews 5:5-10; John 12:20-33
In ancient Israel, priests were the gates through which God poured mercy.
He faces it.
I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.
The composer sees his music as an interplay between suffering and consolation, loss and hope.
Bumbling along in the footsteps of Melchizedek