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Category Archives: Wide Angle
A Man Called Paul (Wide Angle): Before Saul Became Paul
(Reading Time: approximately 4 minutes.) At the trial of St. Stephen’s trial, Saul of Tarsus must have sat shaking his head. “This heretic! Who does he think he is, lecturing us!” When Stephen accused his peers of resisting the Holy … Continue reading
A Man Named Paul (Wide Angle)
In this Wide Angle series of posts, we have been surveying the mountain peaks of biblical revelation – the most important people and events in the history of God’s interaction with humans. We have been skipping from one mountain of … Continue reading
The Baptism of the Spirit (Wide Angle)
Reading time: Approximately two minutes. There are some things in Acts 2, regarding the coming of the Spirit, which we would do well to note. The first is the meaning of the word baptism as it is applied to what … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, Church Life, Theology, Wide Angle
Tagged Acts 2, baptism of the Spirit, Beginning of the church, Filled with the Spirit, Pentecost
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The Holy Spirit and the Church (Wide Angle)
The Catholic Church has created a great deal of controversy, but is surely right, when it says, “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus – “Outside the Church there is no salvation.” That is because no one outside the church is inside Christ. Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Church Life, Theology, Wide Angle
Tagged Ephesians 4:13, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, Pentecost, The Body of Christ, The Holy Spirit
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Is the Holy Spirit Optional? (Wide Angle)
(Reading Time: Approximately 3 minutes) Sometimes Christians get the idea that the presence of the Spirit of God in our lives is an option, something we can take or leave, like heated leather seats and dual zone climate control. It’s … Continue reading
“What Does This Mean?” The Gift of the Spirit (Wide Angle: Acts 2)
(Reading time: approximately 3 minutes.) In Acts 2, St. Luke tells us that the sound of a mighty wind came from heaven and filled the house where Jesus followers were staying. What looked like “tongues of fire” separated and rested … Continue reading
The Coming of the Spirit: An Essential Part of Salvation (Wide Angle)
(Reading time: 4-5 minutes) Today we’ll use our wide-angle lens to focus on the strange events that took place on the Jewish Feast of Pentecost during the same year that Jesus was crucified and resurrected. The word Pentecost is a … Continue reading
The Continuing Presence of Jesus (Wide Angle: Acts 1)
How must they have felt as they walked back to the city? What did they talk about? There was something final about Jesus’s departure. They probably understood that they had entered a new phase of life, but how were they to live it? “Witnesses to the ends of the earth”—how were they to do that? What would it look like?
As they walked back to their accommodations in Jerusalem, they had no clue about how to answer those questions. The future was a blank. They didn’t know what their lives were going to look like. All they had was Jesus’ instruction. Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Theology, Wide Angle
Tagged Acts 1, Acts 1:14, ascension, John 16:7; another comforter
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The Ascension: A Post-Resurrection Disappearance
Reading time: 4-5 minutes. (This Wide Angle look comes from Acts 1. Verses not otherwise identified by book and chapter are taken from there.) When Jesus was crucified, and his followers had despaired. When he was raised, they were astounded. … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Mission, Theology, Wide Angle
Tagged Acts 1:8, Ascencion, kingdom of God, post-resurrection appearances, witness
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Up, Up and (yet not) Away! (A Wide Angle Look at the Ascencion)
(Reading Time: Approximately 3-4 minutes.) When really big changes take place – the ones that are destined to transform the world we live in – they often go unnoticed. When the first Ford rolled off an assembly line in 1913, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Theology, Wide Angle
Tagged Acts 1, Ascencion, Holy Spirit, kingdom of God, Promise of the Father
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