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None of Jesus’ predictions point to the notion that war is the will of God. Rather, he tells us that war cannot ultimately thwart his will or the forward march of his Kingdom of peace.

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons   12/10Matthew 23:27-39 NRSV “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth. So you also on the outside look righteous to…

God’s spokespeople were never appointed to lock people out of the Kingdom of God or destroy their lives and potential. And yet, it happens today and happened in Jesus’ time.

The way up is always down. The servant is the greatest of all. SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/8Matthew 23:1-12 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they…

This is the Advent of a new way of thinking. What is the greatest commandment? Who is the Son of Man? SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons   12/7Matthew 22:34-46 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test…

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. “ -Revelation 1:8 Everything is wrapped up in the babe who was wrapped in swaddling clothes. In a tiny bundle of newborn humanity is the sum total of all truth…

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons     Removing Impediments 12/5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. – Luke 3:5-6 God called John to…