Occasionally in the Bible, people say odd things. I don’t necessarily mean theologically challenging things, although there’s plenty of that. I mean things that don’t make sense. For example, this passage in the Gospel of John. When we come across something odd in scripture, it’s an invitation to stay with it for a bit. The […]
Step into the Water
“Baptism means everything which water means”. We sometimes think, most of us being linear thinkers, that baptism does primarily one thing. Baptism = x. We think in the same way about the Lord’s Supper, that it means only one thing. But since Christians have at least three different names for the sacrament of the Lord’s […]