Timothy Titus

Monday, 24 October 2011

The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are each centering on the others, adoring and serving them. And because the Father, Son, and Spirit are giving glorifying love to one another, God is infinitely, profoundly happy.
Think about this: If you find somebody you adore, someone for whom you would do anything, and you discover that this person feels the same way about you, does that feel good? It's sublime!
That's what God has been enjoying for all eternity.
The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are pouring love and joy and adoration into the other, each one serving the other.
They are infinitely seeking one another's glory, and so God is infinitely happy.
And if it's true that this world has been created by this triune God, then ultimate reality is a dance.

p8 King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

Friday, 21 October 2011

Demos or Bureaus?

We seem to be very concerned to let democracy have its 'Saviour' like way in all kinds of Arab countries at the moment.

Yet well might others around the world look at us as in need of liberating from an undemocratic tyranny sucking the life from us!

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Baptismal Revelation

Some early thoughts.

Jesus' baptism (Mark 1:9-11) is:

His anointing to the Kingship (Psalm 2 & 2 Samuel 7:14).

His washing for the priesthood?

His Spirit-filling as a prophet of God?

There is also something of an echo in Mark 1:11 from Isaiah 42:1-2. Jesus is the Son and the Servant.

Saturday, 15 October 2011

The kingdom of God is near

‘The kingdom of God’ is God in saving action, God taking control in his world, or, to use our title, ‘divine government’.

… Mark begins his book with a prologue designed to appeal to Jewish expectations of the fulfilment of the hopes of Israel, and to point to Jesus of Nazareth as the one in whom that fulfilment is to be focused. At the same time he has alerted his readers that the stage on which the drama is to be played is not merely that of human relationships, even of national politics, but of the cosmic encounter of the Son of God with the kingdom of Satan. (Divine Government: God's Kingship in the Gospel of Mark p21)