Devotional Thoughts and Prayers for Sunday, August 6, 2023
"A Tale of Two Banquets"
https://youtu.be/34edI9ojQB4
#Jesus #GoodNews #Gospel #JohnTheBaptist #Herod #Banquet #Sermon
#jesus #goodnews #gospel #johnthebaptist #herod #banquet #sermon
And just like that:
I discovered another excellent band. 😎 🤘
This time it's Herod from Switzerland and their new album 'The Iconoclast' in May 2023.
Ein Dank geht raus ans Magazin Visions für diesen tollen Tipp! 👍
#herod #metal #progmetal #sludge #visions #pelagic
HEROD - The Icon (Official Video)
#music #metal #sludgemetal #herod #pelagicrecords
HEROD - The Edifice (Official Audio)
#music #metal #progressivemetal #herod #pelagicrecords
#sdtps And the I started #warning them, saying,
“Take heed, be on your guard against the yeast of the #Pharisees, and the yeast of #Herod.”
And they were #discussing with one another the fact that we had no bread loaves. And knowing, the I says to them,
“Why are you #discussing with one another the fact that you have no bread loaves?
Are you still not #understanding, nor putting it together? #TIBTM95
#sdtps #warning #pharisees #herod #discussing #understanding #tibtm95
#sdtps And with a single twitching of his #eyebrow to a guard, John was shot through the #heart with a javelin. And #Salome fainted to the floor.
And #Herodias greatly pleased with the sudden demise of John, felt it #wiser not to openly show it, for #Herod looked a frightful fierce. And John’s body was brought to his #disciples, and with many #tears shed we buried it in a #secret place overlooking his beloved #Jordan. #histodons #TIBTM71
#sdtps #eyebrow #heart #salome #herodias #wiser #herod #disciples #tears #secret #jordan #tibtm71 #histodons
#sdtps And when he listened to him, he had much #difficulty, yet heard him gladly. And a #suitable day came, when #Herod in his #birthday #celebration made a #banquet. And when, #Salome the ravishing #daughter of #Herodias herself came in, and danced ever so seductively to the great #delight of #Herod and those reclining with him, he said to the girl,
“Ask me anything; anything, anything you want, and I will give it to you.” #histodons #TIBTM68
#sdtps #difficulty #suitable #herod #birthday #celebration #banquet #salome #daughter #herodias #delight #tibtm68 #histodons
#sdtps For #Herod himself, sending orders, had seized John and bound him in #prison, because of #Herodias his brother Philip’s #wife, whom he had married. For John had been saying to Herod,
“It is not permissible for you to have your brother’s wife.” And #Herodias had been culturing a fierce grudge against him, and was wanting to have him liquidated, and could not, for #Herod half feared and half respected John, knowing him to be a righteous and #holy man, and as such he protected him. #TIBTM67
#sdtps #herod #prison #herodias #wife #holy #tibtm67
#sdtps It felt as if they were #forgetting the God; forgetting the #wondrous ways of the God. Would that they would #know that the God and the me have them always with us in #fullness of #love.
And #Herod Antipater the #Tetrarch heard, for my #name had become so well known that some were saying,
“John the Baptizer has been #raised from the #dead; that is why #miraculous #powers are at work in him.” #histodons #TIBTM65
#sdtps #forgetting #wondrous #know #fullness #love #herod #tetrarch #name #raised #dead #miraculous #powers #tibtm65 #histodons
Where are we going now?
It is not like we may be travelling afar. We have had such a spate of strikes recently that may might be reluctant to take the train, travel down the motorway or even fly. Then again we might also be awash with wrapping paper, and still looking for the replacement batteries. Where are we going now?
Is this really from the Hebrew Scriptures because it
https://dbobstoner.com/where-are-we-going-2/
#Lectionary #Christmas1A #God #Herod #HolyFamily #Injustice #Jesus
#jesus #injustice #holyfamily #herod #god #christmas1a #lectionary
King #Herod’s mausoleum, which long eluded #archaeologists, sheds light on the ruler’s turbulent reign
#OTD The 28th of #December is #Childermass Day or #Holy #Innocents Day - when #Innocent #Children were #Slaughtered by #King #Herod.
In #Literature, #Winter imagery is used for Herod's #Cruelty (Cold, Frost) while the children are like #Botanicals, described as the first #Seeds or the #Flowers of the #Church. The #Poet #Prudentius wrote,
All hail! You infant #Martyr flowers,
Cut off in life's first dawning hours;
Like #Rosebuds snapped in dreadful strife,
When Herod sought our #Savior's life.
#otd #December #childermass #holy #innocents #innocent #children #slaughtered #king #herod #literature #winter #cruelty #botanicals #seeds #flowers #church #poet #prudentius #martyr #rosebuds #savior
The #Hasmonean ("#Maccabee") John Hyrcannus — who inherited #Jerusalem when his brother-in-law killed his brothers and his father — forcibly converted the entire region to Judaism.
This is why the inhabitants of Idumaea (Biblical Edom) became technically Jewish.
And, astonishingly, this is why #Herod could eventually destroy Jerusalem.
This is also a bizarre connection between #Hanukkah and #Christmas...
#holiday #history #facts #hasmonean #maccabee #jerusalem #herod #hanukkah #christmas #histodons
Preparing for #Christmas, I am once again struck by a line in the story of the #Magi (Wise Men). King #Herod had told them to come back and tell him where the #Christ child was (he wanted to kill the baby). But instead, 'having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road' (Matthew 2.12).
When are we called to defy authority, and to take a different road, so that we don't collude with #evil?
#bible #Epiphany
#epiphany #bible #evil #christ #herod #magi #christmas
My latest on my blog, Walking Thoughts, "Christmas 2022: A Baby Cries."
https://hpaulsantmire.net/christmas-2022-a-baby-cries/
#Christmas #OLittleTownOfBethlehem #WordMadeFlesh #Tillich #Pastors #Church #Herod #Aging #Lutheran #Lutherans #Hope
#christmas #olittletownofbethlehem #wordmadeflesh #tillich #pastors #church #herod #aging #lutheran #lutherans #hope