tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935942607987614770.post2792130035998527084..comments2023-08-06T10:20:26.565-04:00Comments on Retired Pastor Ruminates: “The Stones Would Cry Out!” Palm Sunday Ruminations on the Cradle and the CrossRichard L. Floydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113908222186199761noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935942607987614770.post-81349093861920530122010-03-28T18:10:24.009-04:002010-03-28T18:10:24.009-04:00Gail,
I heard it in church. I can ask the organi...Gail,<br /><br />I heard it in church. I can ask the organist.<br />You need it right away?<br /><br />A blessed week back at you, and a glorious Easter.<br /><br />-RickRichard L. Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12113908222186199761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935942607987614770.post-65751913803560146902010-03-26T21:39:46.470-04:002010-03-26T21:39:46.470-04:00Thanks for this Rick. I'll be using this poem ...Thanks for this Rick. I'll be using this poem in my sermon (and your hymn "He died upon a lonely tree" after the sermon!).<br />I'm looking for a recording of this Wilbur hymn - not sure where to look (google didn't get me too far...) What do you know?<br />Blessed Palm / Passion!<br />GailGailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128023280273950248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935942607987614770.post-12546846307848358932010-03-26T19:36:14.127-04:002010-03-26T19:36:14.127-04:00Jeanny and Gabe, thanks for the good words of enco...Jeanny and Gabe, thanks for the good words of encouragement. <br /><br />Wes, thank you for your thoughtful insights, especially about the Lord's Supper. I think it is key. Many scholars I trust, including Richard Bauckham, think is an authentic piece of the very earliest kergma, and was Jesus' way of trying to explain to his disciples the meaning of his death. Regardless, it is canon which is good enough for me. <br /><br />BTW, Wes, I went on your blog, and I see that you are a youth minister in the UCC. Hang in there, we need folks like you.<br /><br />-RickRichard L. Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12113908222186199761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935942607987614770.post-85095479492669431032010-03-26T13:52:21.608-04:002010-03-26T13:52:21.608-04:00Rick,
Very special!
Your ministry continues.
...Rick,<br /><br />Very special!<br /><br />Your ministry continues.<br /><br /> --GabeGabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04968143939542320676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935942607987614770.post-73331361177019421212010-03-26T13:15:16.986-04:002010-03-26T13:15:16.986-04:00I too "have learned to be careful not to take...I too "have learned to be careful not to take any episode of the story to represent the whole" but it is curious the way Jesus seems to bring incarnation and the cross together in his "Last Supper." He takes the passover meal which memorializes the story of the exodus, possibly the true starting point of the Biblical narrative (with Genesis as its' prequel), and in calling the wine his blood and the bread his body, he centers the whole meal around himself. He takes the central piece of the biblical narrative and places his actual body and blood, the incarnate body and blood of God, and places them at the center of the story so that the pouring out of his blood and the breaking of his body become essential to the incarnation itself. The death and resurrection are the true substance and the sustenance (bread and wine) of the incarnation. Jesus brought God to a cross and thereby defeated death once and for all through glorious resurrection. It is from this resurrection narrative that the whole of Christian discipleship and even activism come forth.<br /><br />Acts 2:23-41<br />1Corinthains 15wellis68https://www.blogger.com/profile/06087588494600746854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935942607987614770.post-64277173010296876232010-03-26T09:37:51.074-04:002010-03-26T09:37:51.074-04:00Thanks, Rick. I'd not seen this before. Lovel...Thanks, Rick. I'd not seen this before. Lovely.Jeanny Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13118755273034086456noreply@blogger.com