Author : Jon L. In a vivid and inviting style, Jon Berquist moves from the elements of the meal to the people who partake to the God who invites, producing fresh perspectives all along the way.
Clergy and laity alike can enlarge their interpretation of communion by including motifs from the Old Testament. She has a wonderful son, two beautiful daughters, and two blessed grandchildren. Its mission is to create a safe place for a shared vision of healing, hope, and reconciliation.
Her focus of ministry and the passion of her heart is within the call to International Missions. Apostle Nixon may be contacted at [email protected] or by visiting Williams Chapel's webpage at www. Douglas Powe, Jr. Author, Douglas Powe suggests that the African American church, while once the bedrock of the community, is no longer on the radar for many.
During the Civil Rights movement African American churches initiated and even shaped transformation for an entire country, well beyond their own walls.
For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.
Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins. New King James Version And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined.
But new wine must be put into new wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. No, new wine is put into fresh wineskins. The question resonates through this new book by Andrew Greeley, the most recognized, respected, and influential commentator on American Catholic life.
A timely and much-needed review of forty years of Church history, The Catholic Revolution offers a genuinely new interpretation of the complex and radical shift in American Catholic attitudes since the second Vatican Council Drawing on a wealth of data collected over the last thirty years, Greeley points to a rift between the higher and lower orders in the Church that began in the wake of Vatican Council II—when bishops, euphoric in their temporary freedom from the obstructions of the Roman Curia, introduced modest changes that nonetheless proved too much for still-rigid structures of Catholicism: the "new wine" burst the "old wineskins.
The revolution that Greeley describes brought about changes that continue to reverberate—in a chasm between leadership and laity, and in a whole generation of Catholics who have become Catholic on their own terms.
Coming at a time of crisis and doubt for the Catholic Church, this richly detailed, deeply thoughtful analysis brings light and clarity to the years of turmoil that have shaken the foundations, if not the faith, of American Catholics. On a boring Saturday, Patrick picks up a Bible and is transported to a magical place where he is introduced to the great stories of the Bible as they take place in front of him. Have you ever felt you needed a seminary education to understand the Bible?
In NEW, author and pastor Phil Baker reveals how the earliest believers approached the words of Jesus: seriously and simply. The Church grew rapidly during those first three centuries, as they filtered their understanding of everything else by His words. What impact would be felt today if Jesus' followers again were to take his teachings at face value, allowing them to be the lens by which we view everything else? Jesus said new wine must be poured into new wineskins. NEW will help you shed those old filters that are obscuring your ability to interpret the Bible accurately, and hindering you from understanding and accepting the plain instructions of Jesus Christ.
God wants to adorn us in new wineskins, to receive Him correctly and to live victoriously. Skip to content. New Wine New Wineskins. Author : F. Douglas Powe, Jr. New Wine in New Wineskins. New Wine in Old Wineskins. Author : R. Author : William C. New Wine Tastings. New Wine Tastings Book Review:. What is Reformed Theology.
What is Reformed Theology Book Review:. The Christian The Christian Book Review:. Those who chose to follow Jesus in the first century struggled with a lot of confusion. Was this Messiah going to conquer their enemies? Why did Jesus behave so differently than other rabbis? Why was the religious establishment so angry with Him? Questions like these would have created a lot of unrest and anxiety in His Jewish audience. Jesus encouraged contemporaries to quit focusing on how His behavior fit in the current religious climate.
Instead, He told them to focus on the fruit of His ministry. That's why when John sends His disciples to ask whether they should be looking for someone else, Jesus says this:. Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me" Matthew —6. When people focused on Jesus's fruit, it was easy to see that God was at work. It's when they got distracted by the Pharisaical system that they questioned what Jesus was doing.
When one focuses on the fruit of Jesus's ministry, it's a lot more difficult to get off track. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
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