The story of Nicodemus may be familiar to you. NIcodemus comes to see Jesus at night. In John’s gospel light and dark symbolize accepting, or not, God’s ways. Jesus is called the light of the world. Darkness is presented as the opposite of that light. Nicodemus has questions and then doesn’t understand what Jesus is […]
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The Spirit of Pentecost
Sometimes, Christians can yearn for the past- the good old days. Sometimes they want to return to the days of the early church in Acts. Sometimes they mean a return to the time when the institutional protestant church was powerful and influential in American society. Sometimes this is just a longing to return to the […]