... and enhances energy.[8] A believer living between the times will rebel against all the meaninglessness and boredom of life, find joy and be filled with energy to take on the tasks of everyday life. In his play titled Landscape of the Body, playright John Guare offers a line which expresses these same sentiments: “It is amazing how a little tomorrow [he writes] can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” With Jesus and his kingdom in your future a lot of yesterday (filled with all the disappointments ...
... an audience that included many of them, people forced to hire out their services on a day-to-day basis with no guarantee of future work or of fair treatment. Shepherds were now hirelings, and as Jesus suggests in this scripture, they don't ... things that makes Jesus the ideal shepherd is that he is portrayed as one of the sheep, the Lamb of God in the gospel of John, the Lamb bearing the marks of slaughter in Revelation. As the Word was made flesh that dwelt among us, he understands our infirmity. He is ...
