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Who is This?

June 16, 2020 by Joe Leave a Comment

“Who is this?”

That’s the question asked when the man born blind and in God’s spitting image, the man who was sent to wash returns with sight.

Is he the man who used to sit and beg? Is he someone like him? Apparently, the answer is …

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Filed Under: Jesus Abundant Life Tagged With: John

Sent

June 16, 2020 by Joe Leave a Comment

After covering the blind man’s eyes with mud, the one who God sent to continue the divine creative work sends the man to a pool that means “sent” to wash.

When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent).

John 9:6-7, NRSV
The man born blind is sent to reveal what is it means to follow the one God sent.
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Filed Under: Jesus Abundant Life Tagged With: John

Wash

June 16, 2020 by Joe Leave a Comment

After covering the blind man’s eyes with mud, the one who God sent to continue the divine creative work sends the man to a pool that means “sent” to wash.

When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent).

John 9:6-7, NRSV
Wash
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Filed Under: Jesus Abundant Life Tagged With: Exodus, Isaiah, John, Leviticus, Mark, Matthew, Numbers, Psalms

Spitting Image

May 22, 2020 by Joe 2 Comments

Jesus’ response to the man born blind moves to reveal him as someone made in the spitting image of the divine. At least that is a playful way to talk about Jesus’ actions that answer the question, “What now?”

When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes.

John 9:6, NRSV
We are all made in the spitting image of the divine.
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Filed Under: Jesus Abundant Life Tagged With: Genesis, John, Leviticus

Light Up the Darkness

April 30, 2020 by Joe 3 Comments

We are born in the void. We return there even after presence finds us. So how does God light up the darkness? We see it described metaphorically in the Genesis account. Jesus does this work throughout his time on earth. He also invites his followers to participate in it. But how are we to live in to this call to light up the darkness?

Light Up the Darkness
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Filed Under: Jesus Abundant Life Tagged With: Ephesians, John

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