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dylanadreams · 1 month
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‭John‬ ‭20:30‭-‬31‬ ‭
Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
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shutterandsentence · 4 days
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"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet still believed."
--John 20:29
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roratecaeli · 2 years
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Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?
Heinrich Hofmann – Mary Magdalene at Christ’s Tomb
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a-queer-seminarian · 2 years
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ID in alt text. Link to the tweets. The thread continues:
And she endures that space alone. Peter and the Beloved Disciple enter it for a moment, as first light tentatively touches the tomb’s rolled-back stone.
They sprint into it — that pregnant space between question and answer, death and rebirth — past Mary weeping without a word to her.
They enter the empty tomb and they see the burial cloths that God has stripped off and left behind. They see and the beloved, at least, “believes” (John 20:8). Believes that Jesus is risen — does he also believe that Jesus will return? That they will all see Jesus again, and soon?
If he does, his action is not to hunker down with Mary into the waiting space. He and Peter “return to where they were staying” (v. 10).
They cannot bear the waiting space. Most of us can’t. Who would choose to settle down in hospital halls with figures hunched and haggard, to wait with them for whatever news there may be?
Most of us wouldn’t. Magdalene might.
We can’t skip past the waiting, though. So Mary waits — waits for whatever will come, whenever it comes — and as she waits, she weeps. Her tears are not despair — they are lament.
In This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley describes the power and purpose of lament:
“Lament is not anti-hope. It’s not even a stepping-stone to hope. Lament itself is a form of hope. It’s an innate awareness that what is should not be. As if something is written on our hearts that tells us exactly what we are meant for, and whenever confronted with something contrary to this, we experience a crumbling. And in the rubble, we say, God, you promised.”
Mary believes in the promises of her teacher, his proclamations of a world turned on its head, a new creation born where the poor are lifted from the ashes.
Her hope in that world has crumbled, but she doesn’t abandon the rubble: she settles into it. Makes her home there to wait and see what rises from the ruins.
Mary is crying, “God, you promised!” And she in turn promises God, “here I am — whenever you come, you will find me. I’m not going anywhere.”
In her chapter on lament, Cole continues, “Our hope can be only as deep as our lament is. And our lament as deep as our hope.” Mary’s lament is long, because her hope is deep.
Mary Magdalene does not sit in the garden in despair. Her lament expects response — demands it. Like God of Isaiah 56, she is waiting to be sought — waiting for her call to be met with response…and it will be! Her God WILL call her name — “Mary!” — and she will know the joy of lament answered, of hope fulfilled.
Magdalene is actively waiting for what she KNOWS will come. And she’s not going anywhere till it does.
Thank God for those who wrestle blessing out of pain; who brave the liminal lament and don’t let go.
Mary, your waiting is not in vain. Joy comes with the morning. Hallelujah!
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Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
John 20:30-31 NIV (2011)
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i-walkbyfaith · 2 years
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srndpt2024 · 1 year
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The Purpose of John’s Gospel (and of the complete Holy Bible):
Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.  But these are written that you may believe  that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
John 20:30-31
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babythegod · 1 year
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THANK YOU LORD. Jesus never said he would leave us a BOOK, The Bible is man made..Christ said he’d gift us with the companionship of THE HOLY SPIRIT which is LIVING TRUTH; his power &The Most Highs combined into one omnipotent unfathomable divine entity. Christ’s martyrdom; story of betrayal and costly sacrificial spiritual weight strengthens your connection to Higher Powers if you truly believe in the faithfulness of fate. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ALIVE &REAL. And has been around B.C..If you seek, you shall find the light. I’m so thankful to be chosen &blessed. GOD YOU ARE SO GOOD !!
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tabernacleheart · 2 years
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This passage from John’s Gospel has all the more significance because it brings the Gospel to a close. The story of the breakfast-party with the Risen Christ on the shore of the Lake of Galilee is a sort of appendix. The story-line of the main Gospel ends with Thomas blurting out ‘My Lord and my God’. The Gospel therefore ends, as it began with the only two unmistakable declarations in the New Testament of the divinity of Jesus. ‘The Word was God’ and ‘My Lord and my God’ bracket the Gospel, showing the purpose and angle of the whole, to show that Jesus is God. It complements the other Gospels: they show a man who is also God, whereas this Gospel shows a God who is also man. It is with the divine authority that Jesus confers on His Church the divine power to forgive. Real forgiveness is indeed Godlike. It is not simply ‘forgive-and-forget’, but forgiveness in the knowledge that a hurt has occurred. Just as a bone, broken and merged together again, can be stronger than it was before it was broken, so forgiveness can create a real link of love on both sides, a treasured secret of divine graciousness between forgiver and forgiven.
Dom Henry Wansbrough; Commentary on John 20:19-31
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thefatpastor · 2 years
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Call them by name
Call them by name
“Abrazo de Jesus” by Felix Hernandez http://www.felixhernandezop.com/internet.php# Scripture: John 20:1-19 He called her by name, and everything changed. Weeping, inconsolable, desperate for any information anyone could give, she was stopped in her tracks with one word. Her name. She was unfazed by two angels standing in a tomb that she just saw was empty. When they were no help, she turned…
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melvingaines · 4 months
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dylanadreams · 1 month
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‭John‬ ‭20:24‭-‬29‬ ‭
Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
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fardell24b · 7 months
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Church notes - 3rd September 2023
3rd John 3:16, 17
Communion Isaiah 53
Sermon Matthew 25:31 - 46
Created for Ministry Ephesians 2:20 You were made to make a contribution, not just to consume.
Ephesians 2:10
Called to Ministry 1 Peter 2:9, 10
Gifted for Ministry 1 Peter 4:10
Commanded to Minister Matthew 20:22 - 26
What do you do about it?
Matthew 16:27
It is important that we meet the physical needs of those around us.
Simple acts of kindness. Things that take the focus off ourselves and onto others.
Made for a mission - to share the Good News with others. John 20:21 Acts 1:8
We're to tell others about God and His role in our lives. To share to Gospel. Luke 8:38, 39
2 Peter 3:9
We need to reach people who are out of our world. Like the Samaritans.
1 Corinthians 9:22
We are tasked to build bridges, not walls.
Is anybody going to be in heaven because of you?
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roratecaeli · 2 years
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Because thou hast seen Me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed.
Guercino (1591-1666) - Incredulità di san Tommaso (The Incredulity of Saint Thomas) 1621
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a-queer-seminarian · 2 years
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In Jesus, God rose with wounds that would have impaired his mobility and fine motor skills. In John 20, Jesus allows his disciples to gaze at his impaired body, and even lets Thomas touch his wounds. Let's explore how this story connects to the complications of marginalized bodies being put on display for public consumption — of being made into a spectacle.
Find this ep wherever you get podcasts, or visit www.blessedarethebinarybreakers.com/podcast-archive for links + and episode transcript!
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Part of this episode explores an art piece by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin — a photograph of Jesus with top surgery scars — that you can view here.
Or view it and other images, with image descriptions, in the episode transcript.
The episode also draws from S. Bear Bergman's 2021 article "Please Come and Be Fat."
The episode ends with Rebekah Anderson's meditation "The Body of God."
A previous episode of this podcast also delves into the John 20 story of Jesus and Thomas through a trans and disabled lens — episode 40, "Goodness Embodied: An Intersex, Nonbinary First Human and a Disabled Risen Christ."
If you want to watch the sermon that this ep is based off of, visit here.
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TALKING POINTS:
(0:00 - 3:36) - Introducing the topic: based off a sermon; Jesus's disabling wounds & marginalized bodies as spectacle
(3:37 - 6:30) - Affirmation of Faith in God the seamstress, the wounded Christ
(6:31 - 9:59) Introducing & reading John 20:19-29
(10:00 - 15:59) Identifying our experiences with Christ's — medieval labor pains; Jesus with top surgery scars
(16:00 - 21:52) - Possibility models: proving it's possible to be trans and successful & happy; Jesus proving there is life after suffering & death
(21:53 - 23:51) - Jesus on the cross was forced to be a spectacle; the resurrected Jesus has regained his agency, chooses to share his wounds
(23:52 - 26:10) - "Blessed are those who haven't seen and believe" — parallel with a friend's chronic illness & being believed
(26:11 - 29:18) - risking vulnerability — visibility politics in trans & disabled communities
(29:19 - 33:48) - The risen wounded Christ proves once and for all that what the world calls shameful & broken is not incompatible with the divine
(33:49 - end) - "Imagine the body of God...God has every ability, and every disability in the world"
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howlbear · 6 months
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I keep Twitter around for 1 reason
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