Sands in the Hourglass

The fourth sign in Johns Gospel tells us this – we no longer live in a zero based, closed system universe. In the incarnation, the Infinite has made contact with the finite… Imagine. Imagine you are holding an hourglass. You know an hourglass. It’s a simple concept. It contains two spheres, one is full, […]

I Shall Not Want

So Jesus is giving is a sign as to just how mistaken we are when we go through life believing there is just not enough for us and for them, for me and for you, for mine and for yours… We are back in Galilee. The multitudes are coming to Jesus, and it is a […]

There’s Just Not Enough

Back to the feeding of the five thousand. In John’s poetic prologue to his gospel, which is so important, John tells us something about the beauty of the Infinite entering into the finite. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the […]

The Beauty of the Infinite

So this is the message. This is the message that some who read might be sufficiently offended as to make a response, either good or bad, for or against. Maybe you will decide I’ve gone off the rails and don’t want to read what I have to say anymore. Maybe this will be a […]

It’s a Time Machine

So the Spirit of God just blows where it will. It is not beholden to our borders and boundaries, but just blows through at will. Back to the text at hand. And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father […]

The Rules

Back to the story at hand. Let’s not miss that after the healing narrative in this story of healing the man at the pool of Bethesda, the story says Now that day was the Sabbath. It was the Sabbath. “So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and […]

Christ in the World

At the pool of Bethesda, Gentiles and Jews alike gather together in desperate search of healing. Yes, a few get better on the surface. A few with skin deep problems get better. But most, with diseases that go far deeper than skin deep, never seem to get better. Isn’t this a picture of humanity? Into […]

Hope For the Hopeless

Where the sick and the suffering silently endure their pain. Where the bruised and battered wait for help that never seems to come. Where the failures and the forgotten lead lives of quiet desperation, there is where we find Jesus at work. This is now the third of the seven signs that John gives us […]

The Living Word

So what do we mean when we say that Jesus is the word of life, the wisdom of life, the logos of life, God’s divine logic of life? We mean that Jesus is the translation of God’s love logic, his divine logic, into human form so that we can understand him. This is what the […]

Seeking Signs

Jesus is the word of God translated into human flesh so we can understand it, so that it doesn’t remain abstract, ethereal, theoretical, distant. Jesus is the word, the logos, the wisdom of God translated into a human being so we can understand him. In the beginning the word spoke creation into existence because the […]