Category: Jesus
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68. The Spiritual experience of Jesus
June 2019 I have been mulling for some time about Jesus spiritual life. I do so as someone who tries to take my own spiritual life seriously, and who often finds himself in conversation with others about theirs. My assumption is that Jesus’ spiritual life must have been much like ours. Thus I assume that…
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67. Cosmic Christ/Human Jesus
June 2019 This year alongside my Bible reading I have also been using ‘The World Religions Bible’ edited by Robert van de Weyer. It contains readings from a dozen faith traditions, one for each month. I’m only half way through but already it is obvious that there is a great deal of common ground in…
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66. Recognising the Risen Christ today
June 2019 I’m attempting here to join the dots and link a number of things I’ve written about. When we talk about Jesus we need to know which ‘face’ of Jesus we are talking about. Is it Jesus the man from Nazareth? Is it the Risen Lord? Or is it the Cosmic Christ? In a sense they are…
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63. Why did Jesus need to repent?
February 2019 I recently attended a church service, where the Gospel reading was the story of Jesus’ baptism by John in the Jordan river. The preacher noted that John proclaimed that his baptism was a sign of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, and, in passing, commented that because Jesus was without sin he would…
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48. The Cosmic Christ
October 2017 I’d like to share some thoughts arising from the Cosmic Christ of Whom I wrote in ‘Which Jesus’. John in the opening chapter of his Gospel writes of Jesus as the Word of God Who ‘was with God at the beginning, through Whom all things came to be; without Him no created being came…
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44. Which Jesus….a further thought
September 2017 I have mostly found the idea of The Trinity quite easy to understand. As I think of it, it contains three aspects of the same thing. This is not an unfamiliar concept: I am one person, but everybody who encounters me will encounter a slightly different face, and some quite different faces. The…
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43. Which Jesus…
September 2017 People in church circles often talk about Jesus as if it’s perfectly obvious who they are referring to, but increasingly I find myself wanting to ask ‘which Jesus are you talking about?’ I know that my question will baffle them: ‘there’s only one Jesus’ they will reply, and of course in one sense they…
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33. The Resurrection of Jesus
August 2016 I’ve been brought up as a Christian, I committed myself to follow Christ in my teens, I felt called called by God to be a Christian priest and was duly ordained. The Christian faith is the star that I have sought to follow all my life, and central to it, its foundation stone, is…
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21. A New Vision of Christianity
December 2015 A friend of mine, Les Acklam, recently introduced me to some words by John Spong in the introduction to his most recent book “The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic”. I found these words compelling and have shared them with others who have also found that they speak to their experience, so I…
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12. The Spirituality of Jesus can be ours too
February 2015 I sense that all of the above is important because these elements of Jesus spirituality are potentially ours too. We don’t need a complicated system of teaching in order to grow as people and in relationship to God. All we need to do is the follow Jesus’ example. [1] We all stand in a…
