| Open Table |
…it. For a spoiler-free review consider: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/movies/arrival-review-amy-adams-jeremy-renner.html?_r=0. Every now and then a movie comes along that you simply have to watch twice, because it’s a different movie the second time….
| Story Sermon
…servant John, who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this…
| Story Sermon
…gentiles in both stories are put up as an example against the Jews who are not coming to Jesus, not behaving in ways faithful to God and God’s commandments. The…
| Story Sermon
…would push on that skandalon….until it tripped. And the mission would be completed. But the greatest skandalon was yet to come –the third day, Jesus would be raised from…
| Master Sermons
…Jesus or his message. He was an annoying “come-back kid” who proclaimed a message that made this tight-knit Jewish community, a community trying to stand firm against Roman influences, angry…