What did Jesus ask? Christian leaders reflect on his questions of faith
Book - 2015
"In What Did Jesus Ask?, 65 of today's leading spiritual writers, thinkers, and artists offer modern meditations on the questions that Jesus posed in the Bible to teach his followers how to think like a Christian and consider their personal faith."-Publisher's website.
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New York, NY :
Time Books
2015
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- Includes biblical reference guide.
Contributers are: Naim Ateek ; Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ; Rob Bell ; Barry C. Black ; Nadia Bolz-Weber ; Kate Braestrup ; Rita Nakashima Brock ; Walter Brueggemann ; Mark Burnett ; Amy Butler ; Scott Cairns ; Sister Simone Campbell ; Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño ; Dhyanchand Carr ; Archbishop Charles Chaput ; Ellen T. Charry ; Eugene Cho ; Archbishop Blase Cupich ; Cardinal Timothy Dolan ; Roma Downey ; Paul Elie ; Yvette Flunder ; Nakoto Fujimura ; Keith and Kristyn Getty ; Archibishop José H. Gomez ; Jamie Grace ; Amy Grant ; Neichelle R. Guidry ; Adam Hamilton ; Joel Houston ; Wilfredo de Jesús ; Serene Jones ; Grace Ji-Sun Kim ; Mihee Kim-Kort ; Andrew Krivák ; Lecrae ; Roger Lundin ; James Martin, S.J. ; Sara Miles ; Otis Moss III ; Carrie Newcomer ; Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe ; Stephanie Paulsell ; Cardinal George Pell ; Mitali Perkins ; Eugene Peterson ; Yolanda Pierce ; Luke Powery ; Kwok Pui-Lan ; Rudy Rasmus ; Spencer Reese ; Gene Robinson ; Marilynne Robinson ; Richard Rodriguez ; Samuel Rodriguez Jr. ; Thomas Rosica ; Alexia Salvatierra ; Michael W. Smith ; Barbara Brown Taylor ; Phyllis Tickle ; Chris Tomlin ; J. Ross Wagner ; Jonathan L. Walton ; Sharon E. Watkins ; Valerie Weaver-Zercher ; Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury ; Christian Wiman ; Lauren Winner ; Cardinal Donald Wuerl ; Gene Luen Yang ; Sarah Young ; Wm. Paul Young ; Gene Luen Yang. - Physical Description
- xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9781618930583
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Archbishop Of Canterbury Justin Welby If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? (Matthew 5:46)
- Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? (Matthew 6:27)
- Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3, NRSV)
- You of little faith, why are you so afraid? (Matthew 8:26)
- Do you believe that I am able to do this? (Matthew 9:28)
- What did you go out into the wilderness to see? (Matthew 11:7)
- If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? (Matthew 12:11)
- Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? (Matthew 12:48)
- Why did you doubt? (Matthew 14:31)
- Why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? (Matthew 15:3)
- What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? (Matthew 16:26)
- If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? (Matthew 18:12)
- Haven't you read that at the beginning the Creator "made them male and female"? (Matthew 19:4)
- Why do you ask me about what is good? (Matthew 19:17)
- Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? (Matthew 23:17)
- Why are you bothering this woman? (Matthew 26:10)
- Do you drink I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? (Matthew 26:53)
- My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46)
- Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven," or to say "Get up, take your mat and walk"? (Mark 2:9)
- How can the guests of the bride- groom fast while he is with them? (Mark 2:19)
- Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? (Mark 3:4)
- How can Satan drive out Satan? (Mark 3:23)
- What is your name? (Mark 5:9)
- Who touched my clothes? (Mark 5:30)
- Why all this commotion and wading? (Mark 5:39)
- Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? (Mark 7:18)
- Why does this generation ask for a sign? (Mark 8:12)
- Why are you talking about having no bread? (Mark 8:17)
- Who do people say I am? (Mark 8:27)
- How long has he been like tins? (Mark 9:21)
- How can you make it salty again? (Mark 9:50)
- Why do you call me good? (Mark 10:18)
- Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? (Mark 10:38)
- What do you want me to do for you? (Mark 10:51)
- John's baptism-was it from heaven, or of human origin? (Mark 11:30)
- Haven't you read this passage of Scripture? (Mark 12:10)
- Whose image is this? And whose inscription? (Mark 12:16)
- Simon, are you asleep? Couldn't you keep watch for one hour? (Mark 14:37)
- Am I leading a rebellion that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? (Mark 14:48)
- Why were you searching for me? Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house? (Luke 2:49)
- Can the blind lead the blind? (Luke 6:39)
- Why do you call me, "Lord, Lord," and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46)
- Do you see this woman? (Luke 7:44)
- Which of these three, do you think, proved neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers? (Luke 10:36, RSV)
- Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? (Luke 11:11)
- Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? (Luke 13:2)
- What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? (Luke 13:18)
- Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn't she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? (Luke 15:8)
- Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except the foreigner? (Luke 17:17-18)
- When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8)
- For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? (Luke 22:27)
- Judas, are you betraying the Son of Manwirh a kiss? (Luke 22:48)
- Why are you troubled? (Luke 24:38)
- What do you want? (John 1:38)
- Woman, why do you involve me? (John 2:4)
- Do you not understand these things (John 3:10)
- Will you give me a drink? (John 4:7)
- Do you want to be healed? (John 5:6, ESV)
- Does this offend you? (John 6:61)
- You do not want to leave too, do you? (John 6:67)
- Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? (John 8:10)
- What shall I say? "Farrier, save me from this hour"? (John 12:27)
- Do you understand what I have done for you? (John 13:12)
- Will you really lay down your life for me? (John 13:38)
- My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? (John 14:2)
- Who is it you want? (John 18:4,7)
- Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me? (John 18:11)
- Why question me? (John 18:21)
- Woman, why are you weeping? Who is it you are looking for? (John 20:15)
- Friends, haven't you any fish? (John 21:5)
- Simon, son of John, do you love me? (John 21:17)
- If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? (John 21:22)
- Acknowledgments
- Biblical Reference Guide
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