In his book King’s Cross Tim Keller unfolds Jesus encounter with a paralyzed man and demonstrates how Jesus deals with the man’s real need and not his current greatest desire. Jesus says, “Jesus is saying, “by coming to me and asking only for your body to be healed, you’re not going deep enough. You have …
YouTube animation of sixty-six word clouds, comprising one each for all the books of the Bible. The word ‘LORD’ dominates the thirty-nine Old Testament images, while ‘Jesus’, ‘God’ and ‘Christ’ take prominence in the New Testament. Sixty-Six Clouds is also a website where you can purchase posters of these images. HT: Trevin Wax
My wife loves babies. The five that we had and anyone elses. Just loves them. At morning tea I could pretty much tell anyone wanting Margaret to look for the woman holding a baby. All babies seem to have one thing in common: they don’t want to go to sleep. You can see their drooping …
Tim Keller’s King’s Cross is detailed and textured, not lending itself to short grabs, but weaving images and allusions to illustrate biblical truth. In this excerpt, Keller firstly invokes the ancient meaning of the term gospel: news that brings joy, and relates the role of the first evangelists, those charged with spreading news of events …
