Tune and Prepare!

 Jesus was a heretic in his day:  - he outraged the keepers of the law of Moses,  - he did not keep the Sabbath,  - he broke the fasting rules,  - he “criticized” the Scriptures,  - he caused a scandal in the temple;   - therefore, the Heretics Act was applied to him when he was sentenced to death. Jesus was a scandal to the Jews and a fool to the Greeks (1 Corinthians 1:23). Jesus stepped out of the usual religiosity and brought something radically new. The official guardians of the order considered Jesus to be a disorder.  Yet, Jesus was the most divine where he was a heretic. The traditional order: " worship God, then you get to know yourself, and then you get to your neighbor as well. " Jesus reverses this order: " first settle your affairs with your neighbor, in the process you get to know yourself, and you cry out, be merciful to me, Lord, for I am evil " - while your affair with your neighbor reveals how much you need God.  I...

­ There is some paragraph from John's letters. I've intentionally omitted the verse numbers so that the pure apostolic perspective may go through..  * The life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us.. .. we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. * God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all frailty..  I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.  He is the propitiation for our sins..   Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of t...

­könyv részlet A mennyei gyógyítás egészségesebb szemlélete A következőkben Phil Moore tanulmányából idézünk. (részletek) ...  Mivel elutasítottuk a klasszikus liberális és cesszacionista gyógyítás teológiáját, mint határozottan egészségtelent, és mind a klasszikus pünkösdi, mind a karizmatikus gyógyítás teológiájában komoly hibákat tapasztaltunk, összegezzük most mindezeket a következtetéseket egy ötödik, még egészségesebb gyógyítás-teológiában. (...)  Jézus imája a Jn. 11:41-42-ben szinte teljes egészében az Atyával való kapcsolatán alapszik, és nem a betegekért való imádság képletén . Bizalma, hogy a betegek meggyógyulnak, nem egy általa megismert technikán alapult, hanem az általa megismert Atyán .  Talán ezért kezdte Jézus ránk bízni a gyógyító szolgálatot azzal, hogy tizenkettőt választott, „hogy vele lehessenek, és hogy elküldhesse őket prédikálni, és hogy legyen hatalmuk a démonok kiűzésére” (Mk 3:14-15). Nem tudjuk megkerülni ezt az elve...

O ne day a rabbi council met to make a Din Torah, scrutiny of a difficult case. The facts were blurry. The case was not so clear. The senior rabbi was ready to announce the decision but his spirit prevented him from doing so.  Something was wrong. Quite wrong. Something kept him back. Since he couldn't go back to the Assembly he went into his chamber.  He prayed.  ..suddenly reached into his pocket and found an envelope, full of money.  Someone wanted him to decide in his favor.