Contemplation inspired by Matthew 7:1-14 August 4, 2019 To hear this Gospel with the weight of Christ’s word: “Judge not lest ye be judged,” may trouble us deeply. We can hardly live without judging—after all, every noun we utter is fundamentally a judgment. We identify all the time what is in our world; that is a […]
Where do the Gospels come from? This may seem to be a strange question, but if we answer it “from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,” and some apocryphal gospels by Thomas and others—then we still have not answered or realised how they could have written these accounts of events that they had not personally witnessed. […]
The Weekly Word Sermon July 21st, Gospel reading Matthew 11: 2-15 Today is the last Sunday of celebrating John the Baptist this year. The compelling presence of John lingers in his mysterious call to change our heart and mind, change our consciousness. Nearly 2000 years have passed, but the urgency resonates as much today as […]
The meeting of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth was a turning point for both of them. They came together where the Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea, at the lowest place on the continent, over 400 meters below sea level, where the atmospheric pressure is intense—even metamorphic! John had called out in […]
Rudolf Steiner once wrote that he could say nothing more esoteric or significant than: Christ is seeing us. Christ is lovingly perceiving us at every moment. This means that for every human soul no matter where you are on the face of the earth, Christ is giving us his undivided attention- Muslims, Buddhists, new agers, atheists, everyone. Christ […]
There is something unsettling about this story from the Gospel of John (Jn 4, the woman at the well). If we picture the scene to ourselves, we see Christ alone, weary, sitting by himself on the edge of the well. He is tired and thirsty, and asks a woman coming to the well for something […]
In ancient times worship of the sun was common. Humanity still felt that in the light of the sun streamed the activity of spiritual beings to earth. And what such gave life and form to everything in nature was the substance of love, clad in the outward light of the sun as in a garment. […]
Whitsun is a very special day. It is the end of a process, that began with the birth of the innocent and vulnerable child, who was born in Bethlehem and who later offered Himself to receive the Spirit of the Sun, at the baptism in the Jordan. Then He chose, in free will, the path of […]
Below is a contemplation by our dear Jeana, Seminary Intern. In cultures like the First Nations, it is traditional to give people names that are descriptive, like Running Bull or Quiet River, which tell us something about the activity of the person. Someone who is quick, strong, and fierce would have a very different name from […]
Richard Wurmbrand was a pastor in the mid nineteen sixties in Romania, famous for his profound experiences while in prison. He was put in prison by the communist police, tortured, and 14 years later set free. One night, after being released, he was about to go to sleep when he was moved to go to […]
