For Christmas 2011: Gabriel’s Seven Assertions about Jesus
This is the story of Christmas with a focus on Gabriel’s announcement to Mary.
Palmer St. Podcast: Gabriel’s Seven Assertions
Reply
Tag Archives: The Gospel
Palmer St. Podcast: Keeping the Church Supernatural
The church in the Western World is not very well in tune with the reality of the supernatural. Our regular assumptions cause us to associate supernatural activity with tabloid headlines, superstition or weirdos. Paul wouldn’t want it that way.
Palmer St. Podcast: Jesus, the Sinful Woman and the Pharisee
Dan Petersen, in town from Glasgow, Scotland, brings this to us today. Jesus is not sanctimonious. He mixes with sinners. The irony is that those who view themselves righteous find themselves distant from God.
Palmer St. Podcast: The Word of God?
Consider this assertion by Jon Murray, former president of American Atheists:
“There was no such person in the history of the world as Jesus Christ. There was no historical, living, breathing, sentient human being by that name. Ever. [The Bible] is a fictional, nonhistorical narrative.”
The debate can fairly be stated as, “Is the Bible merely the word of the men who wrote it, or is it truly the word of God?” As it happens this was actually the very question that was faced by the earliest Christians as the gospel message moved out from Jerusalem into the larger Greco-Roman world. It’s the question the Thessalonians faced when they were first visited by Paul.
Central Reflections 