... word “victory,” or “salvation” (Hebrew root ysh‘), links the psalm to 20:5, 6, and 9, where the same root word occurs. 21:3 rich blessings . . . and placed a crown of pure gold on his head. Some have suggested that this is an allusion to the crown of the ... theme in the Psalter is the song that resounds over the noise of this world’s evil, a distant echo, as Lowry put it, “that hails a new creation.” The psalmist registers a similar thought. The congregation or a soloist might sing this ...
... matter the Pharisees’ strict religious regulations about whom and whom not to eat with, Jesus ate with everyone: rich, poor, religious, non-practicing, women, men, scoundrels, biblical scholars. He got into trouble for indiscriminately eating with ... God’s love even when we think we’ve reached the end of life’s road. On August 31, 1983, in Anchorage, Alaska, Pam Joy Lowry got off the bus, unexpectedly darted in front of the bus into the street, was struck by a car and died. She was almost thirteen ...
... was faced with a task of trying to build up a very small congregation that worshiped in a run-down garage. Most of the members were not rich by the standards of the world. Ada Gleb was one of the poorest of the poor, but she was one of the top givers in the ... of Jesus in the right way, we must hear it from the inside, as participants. In his book, How to Preach a Parable, Eugene Lowry says that in order to understand a parable we must look for the itch before we can feel the scratch. We must sense the ...
... must not make this sound easy. It's hard. In fact, it is impossible. Then Jesus says, ''With God even this is possible." It is even possible for someone who is rich to divest and get into the Kingdom. And I don't know whether that is good news or bad. Jesus has clearly taught that you can only come into this Kingdom ... name has been forgotten."3] 1. Attack Upon Christendom, trans. Walter Lowrie, Boston: The Beacon Press, 1944, p. 181. 2. Mark: Interpretation, 1983, p.188 3. Athol Gill, Life on the Road, p. 92
... on human form, even the form of a tiny babe. It’s a thought too amazing for us to comprehend. I love the way Mark Lowry put it in his beautiful Christmas song: “Mary did you know . . . that your baby boy has come to make you new? This child that you ... eyes the light of the sun that we see--never hearing the sounds that we can hear--but she lived a full, rich radiant life. For example, did you know that Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College, cum laude? Even more amazing, through the course ...
