Painting and singing.Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 98; Hebrews 1:1-4 (5-12); John 1:1-14 Peace, salvation, and the reign of God arrive with beauty (Isaiah 52) and song (Psalm 98). God judges the world with righteousness and equity; humanity is to make a "joyful noise to the Lord" of "song and sung praises." Though violence is woven throughout the Hebrew Testament, the prophets' truths and prophecies continue to inform our lives as Christian peacemakers This article is about the pacifist organization. For other meanings, see Peacemaker (disambiguation). Peacemakers was an American pacifist organization. . However, the beauty and music only expand when something truly new happens. That new thing is incarnation: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). "Glory" (or doxa) and its synonym "beauty" color and enlighten the incarnation of God in Jesus of Nazareth. The glory/beauty of revelation carries on in this new covenant This article is about the theological concept of the New Covenant. For other uses, see New Covenant (disambiguation). The term New Covenant (Hebrew: ברית חדשה, , but the violence gives way to the nonviolence of Christ's love. "Long ago God spoke to our ancestors Our Ancestors (Italian: I Nostri Antenati) is the name of Italo Calvino's "heraldic trilogy" that comprises The Cloven Viscount (1952), The Baron in the Trees (1957), and The Nonexistent Knight (1959). ... by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son.... He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being" (Hebrews 1:1,3). John 1 describes this glory as light, a standard expression for glory in the New Testament along with power and splendor. In Jesus, this "true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world" (John 1:9). Remembering the prophetic continuity but recognizing the new incarnational reality, we begin to see why Jesus rejected violence in all of its forms. Yet let's not Let's Not is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in Boston University Graduate Journal in December 1954. It was written for no payment as a favour to the journal, and later appeared in the collection Buy Jupiter. rush the story. Perhaps Christmas week is a time to step from words to paintings, from books to beauty. The glorious luminosity luminosity, in astronomy, the rate at which energy of all types is radiated by an object in all directions. A star's luminosity depends on its size and its temperature, varying as the square of the radius and the fourth power of the absolute surface temperature. of a painting like Rembrandt's "The Holy Family" can reawaken Verb 1. reawaken - awaken once again awaken, wake up, waken, rouse, wake, arouse - cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." us to the power of glory-doxa-beauty. Mary has nursed the baby. Jesus sleeps. Joseph watches and wonders. We do, too. "Preaching the Word," Sojourners' online resource for sermon preparation and Bible study, is available at www.sojo.net. |
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