In which the apostle Thomas achieves superhero status

December 16, 2010

He looked at Jesus, he refused the offer, and by refusing, gained everything. This is the 7th in a series on the Apostle Thomas. I never expected it to go this long. But 7 is a nice number. Here they are, should anyone want to peek: Part one, two, three, four, five, and six. Which […]

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In which locked doors aren’t enough…

December 15, 2010

I started blogging about the book of James. But then James got into the subject of doubt and faith. So I blogged about that a little. But who can write about doubt and not write about the apostle Thomas? So I’ve been diggin’ on him now for a bit. He’s a hero of mine you […]

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In which Thomas wasn’t the first to doubt the Resurrection

December 14, 2010

“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nail marks, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” John 20:25 It’s always portrayed as such a sad response from such an unbelieving soul. It is “unbelieving”. I know this because Our Lord said […]

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In which Thomas comes back expecting one thing and gets … not that one thing … but the other thing

December 13, 2010

Here is where the roads converge Thomas and doubt and God. This it the third and final appearance of Thomas in the Gospels – and this last one is the famous one. John 20:24-28. “Thomas, called Didymus, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.  So the other disciples said to him, […]

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In which nobody wanted to ask the questions except…

December 11, 2010

I envision an upper room in house with light brown walls. They would be made of stone but plastered with mud and straw. Lamps would have lent a fireplace kind of glow to the room. Cushions would have lined the floor and the mood would have been light, happy, festive. Hymns would have been sung, […]

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In which doubt meets it’s match…

December 10, 2010

The story of the apostle Thomas continues. Part one is here. The link below takes you to a clip from the movie on the right. It is over 30 years old and I think it’s the best Gospel movie ever made. It was a T.V. miniseries. Think about that – a blockbuster T.V. Miniseries – […]

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In which some rocks are stable, some are not, and decisions must be made

December 9, 2010

Faith. Why did God set things up this way? Why the faith system instead of the proof system? Why are we left to believe in that which cannot be objectively proven? I don’t know. But the fact remains that if we follow him, we do so in faith. By the way, there’s going to be […]

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In which an unlikely hero arises…

December 8, 2010

Did you ever notice how some people learn how to ice skate easily — and some never do. Some ankles are just meant to buckle when placed on the ice, yet some people just take off and fly with abandon. Me, I still ice skate in a straight line only, and the surest way to […]

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In which doubt can be stilled or stirred…

December 7, 2010

Is a blog a place to pour out a heart? I am about to pour. If you’d rather wait for me to pick up sharing with you what I learned from Scripture, there will, God willing, be tomorrow. When I began blogging I started by not starting. What I mean is that I read bloggers, […]

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In which there is rock and a hard place …

December 6, 2010

Faith is a rock – it makes things solid, it’s stable. Disbelief is a hard place, where nothing is certain, no hope, no vision. Doubt leaves us between the rock and the hard place. See, James is right, doubt is the harder way. If he could have inserted video into his letter, I think this […]

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