#euangelion

[trollpecador]

Posted @withregram • @integridadbiblica "No dudes de su gracia debido a tu tribulación, pero cree que te ama, tanto en épocas de problemas como en épocas de felicidad". Charles Spurgeon #evangelio #integridad #iglesia #post #spurgeon #versos #frases #biblica #CharlesHSpurgeon #evangelicos #euangelion #buenasnuevas #goodnews https://www.instagram.com/p/B-c7robJsYL/?igshid=9jgfe9du591z

[buggie-hagen]

This is, of course, why Lutheran churches are called "Lutheran." The term was originally a derogatory one to denounce those who shared Luther's concerns for the reform of the church, though his allies proudly accepted the label. Luther's own word for his movement was "evangelical," meaning "of the gospel," from the Greek word for gospel, euangelion...the importance of the word hangs on in the fact that most Lutheran churches use both terms to describe themselves: the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Costa Rica, the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church. ~Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans, 24-5.

[gigsoupmusic]

Euangelion Shares His Message in New Album The Last Witness Vol. 1

Everyone belonging to a society knows that society is stratified among classes, ethnicities, races, corporations, gender etc. One thing is evident is that the powerful will never voluntarily relinquish their power. What if there was a greater force behind the scenes? Some people call it the deep state, the political wisemen, the power elite … What if these men are actuated by a force alien to ordinary people? What if the world is following a script that will lead to an undesirable end for ordinary people? Euangelion in What if explores some of these questions with the hope that his listeners will not accept things as they see them but will develop a sociological imagination and question everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ0CHrPvjWM Euangelion presents What if? form the album The Last Witness Vol.1 The True Nutopia The legal code has not been explained to most minority groups. And if it did it would allow them to navigate the social ladder easily or easier. Maybe even as ably as the majority. Another nod to the Conflicts Theory because it has been said, that some people are able to make fortunes by navigating the loopholes of the law. It takes capital to do this or if you have the intellectual will. For where one lacks power the other does not. There needs to be equal opportunities in every area of our life where applied. What if everyone had it? Then none would be at a disadvantage. Herein lies true Nutopia the utopian dream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXRJ1o3F7iM&t=3s Εuangelion | Ευαγγέλιοn – Greek for “message” or “the messenger” - is a crossover Hip Hop/Reggae artist from British Columbia, Canada. Describing his life as “‘kaleidoscopic’ at best and ‘interestingly colourful’ at worst”, his music is aimed at encouraging audiences to question everything around them, from people to philosophies to institutions. This is in keeping with Euangelion’s commitment to life, as both holder of a degree in religion and his career in the nursing industry. Read the full article

[hurremsphoenix]

Byzantium Nerd Problems #51

Yes. I am very excited about finding this Greek version of the New Testament. No, I am not religious. I just like the language and Byzantium. 

[moshay7]

May we be filled with grief over those who do not know Christ and those who do not have access to the gospel. #praytheword #radical #euangelion (at Myanmar) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpJOT-WnZNU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18kug1bkygjqw

[aclearlens]

Funsized Bible Study: Chapter 15

Funsized Bible Study: New Testament - Gospels #Bible #hermeneutics #interpretation #gospel #christian #theology

All the chewy goodness of proper hermeneutics in new fun-sized bites!

New Testament – Gospels (more…)

View On WordPress

[lawrenceop]

HOMILY for 2nd Sunday of Advent (B)

Isaiah 40:1-5,9-11; Ps 84; 2 Pt 3:8-14; Mark 1:1-8

It’s hard for me to listen to these words of Isaiah and not hear the music of Handel’s Messiah – these words, and their soundtrack, are so familiar. But it is this familiarity that causes me to miss what Isaiah is saying. Similarly, the Gospel of Mark, and the Christian story can be so familiar that we miss its profundity. How often do I hear the Gospel and think, ‘I know this already?’ 

A few years ago, I met someone who told me about his conversion to Christianity. He came from an atheist background, and he wasn’t familiar with the Gospels. But he was writing a doctorate on social justice and Marxism, and he realized that many ideas could be traced to the Gospels. So he thought that, as part of his research, he should at least open the Bible and read it. And as he read the Gospels, he said the figure of Christ was so radical, so compelling, so attractive that he knew it had to be true. So, he sought baptism as a Catholic. The Orthodox archbishop Anthony Bloom had a similar experience. He had been a skeptical young man, and after hearing a talk by a Russian Orthodox theologian, he decided he had to demonstrate to others how empty and stupid he thought Christianity was. So he went home and began his research by reading the shortest of the Gospels, Mark. But as he read it he says he encountered the Risen Christ: “I suddenly became aware that on the other side of my desk there was a Presence”. Can it be that our familiarity with the Christian story causes us to miss Christ’s presence? 

It’s like our experience with our own families and especially our parents, I think: we can just take them for granted – we think we know them. But do we? Can we assume that we know the meaning of the Gospel and know Jesus? Have we encountered him, or let him encounter us the way Anthony Bloom or my friend did? Or, maybe, when we listen to Scripture being read, we think we know it already and another soundtrack plays, one that can hinder us from really listening to the Word of God. 

Advent, as such, opened last Sunday with a call to be alert and vigilant; awake and attentive. And then, having woken us up, the herald comes today crying out and making great declarations; getting us to sit up and listen again. 

And Mark’s Gospel opens as a great announcement: “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God” (Mk 1:1). So much is packed into this first sentence, but we can often miss it’s radical newness because we’re so familiar with Jesus being called Christ and Son of God, and we think we know what the word ‘gospel’ means – it’s the story about Jesus’ life, we’d say.

And yet, to an outsider in the first century approaching the Greek text for the first time, Mark’s opening sentence makes one sit up, and it’s even slightly alarming. For in the Hellenic ancient world euangelion was a bit of political jargon. Although it literally means ‘good news’ or a ‘good proclamation’, it was a word used routinely for official news and important public declarations. Rather than just a feel good news story, it’s more like a significant Press Release from Downing Street or the Palace of Westminster. 

An euangelion was used to herald a piece of news that was of public interest and significance,  like news from the frontline in times of war, or used to inform people that a peace treaty had been signed, or to announce the birth of a prince. Here in Edinburgh we can think of the Mercat Cross on the Royal Mile which is still used for official announcements of national importance such as the calling of a General Election. The idea is that an euangelion is supposed to announce an event that marks the transition to a new era, that heralds regime change, and an end to the status quo.

The euangelion also concerns the birth of a great personage, no less that one who is called ‘Anointed’ and who is designated as God’s Son. To a Jew, this was a bit of political jargon too, often used of the king of Israel. So, Mark’s Gospel announced regime change, and for many people, any kind of change can be unsettling and alarming. But who’s upsetting the status quo? Who’s taking charge? It is God. 

The Gospels, therefore, are a declaration that God is taking over; he himself is coming to rule the world, and to establish justice, and to shepherd his people. How God does this then unfolds over the course of the Gospel, beginning in Mark’s Gospel with a series of exorcisms. For as Jesus says in St John’s Gospel: “Now shall the ruler of this world [i.e. the Devil] be cast out” (Jn 12:31). But are we ready for this regime change? So, John the Baptist arrives to prepare us, and he’s announcing, as it were, a General Election. He’s calling us to cast our votes and to make a choice. Do we want to live under the regime of the Devil, under the reign of sin, or will we switch allegiance and choose to live under God’s rule? Thus John arrives “preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Mk 1:4): he’s canvassing for votes, getting us to change our ways of thinking and behaving and to come on side with God. 

Hence, Mark’s Gospel challenges us to consider and to make a choice. We can often become indifferent to political campaigns and the promises of politicians. But this is a different kind of vote. Usually we cast our vote and expect the government and the new regime to act; we become passive. But with Christ it’s different. In him, the God-Man, we see that God and Man must work together; you and I must take an active part in this new regime. For what Jesus gives us, as John says, is the Holy Spirit (Lk 1:8). Each of us, then, must collaborate with God’s grace, to bring ourselves under God’s rule. Advent thus calls me to evaluate if there has been a regime change in my life and, over the course of the coming year, to let God take over and let charity reign in my heart.

[godthings]

"Over the last five days, I've spent a good deal of my time alone. I'm reminded that solitude is both a gift and a test. It brings out the best and worst in me. It is where the devil comes to tempt us. I think for me one of the greatest temptations when in solitude is to feel entitled to idleness or fleshly desires because of the 'work' I do for God. I am tempted, and more often than I'd like to admit succumb to the temptation, to indulge myself. I simply forget the Spirit of Jesus in those moments. I'm completely self-directed. There is a temptation then in solitude, at least in my experience, for moments of 'God-forgetfulness'. These are dangerous moments.

Because I am a follower of Jesus, and because I am a pastor and teacher of God's Word, and because I by faith affirm that my actions in secret can either bless or curse those with whom I'm in community I must engage the fight with the devil in times of solitude in the power of the Spirit for the sake of the community and the ministry of the Gospel."

— Joel Willitts, Bonhoeffer on Solitude from Life Together, Euangelion, Patheos: Hosting the Conversation on Faith