The Bible Study Evangelista

  Category: The Seven I AM Statements of Jesus Tag: authority , Bible reading , fulfilled , Old Testament , sacrifice   What if the Name of God is the sound of breathing? What if that is the basis of His being both the Door and the Great Shepherd? Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Melissa M; Patricia P; Brooke E; Michelle S; Teresa D; Carolyn W; Celine E, for loving and lifting me! Bible Study Evangelista is on the Laudate app! LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary’s own practice: lectio without the Latin. Get the book based on her method in the right margin, How to Pray Like Mary. L – Listen (Receive the Word.) O – Observe (Choose one or more of the following personality approaches to connect the passage to your life and recent events.) All of the prayer personalities and temperaments – Franciscan, Ignatian, Augustinian, and Thomistic – are included in the exercise this week.  (Read about those...

Category: The Seven I AM Statements of Jesus Tag: Bible reading , Catholic priesthood , fulfilled , Old Testament   He who keeps the gate, keeps what the gate protects. _ Woops! After recording, I somehow exited my editing software before I saved the last segment, and it made me so mad I just produced this show with three segments without re-recording the last twelve minutes. Heads-up that this show is shorter. Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Agnieszka T; Carmen D; and Diane S, for loving and lifting me! Bible Study Evangelista is on the Laudate app! LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary’s own practice: lectio without the Latin. Get the book based on her method in the right margin, How to Pray Like Mary. L – Listen (Receive the Word.) O – Observe (Choose one or more of the following personality approaches to connect the passage to your life and recent events.) F | Franciscan – Consider that you can also be a ty...

Category: The Seven I AM Statements of Jesus Tag: Bible reading , Catholic priesthood , fulfilled , institutional priesthood , lampstand , light , Old Testament All the “lights” of the Old Testament symbolized the light of God’s authoritative presence in his Word through the institutional priesthood. Jesus fulfills them all as High Priest and Word of God. By filling the “lights” with the power of salvation, he carries the lampstand forward into the New Testament Church, where Jesus is the center of all the light emanating from the historical, institutional priesthood in the heavenly tabernacle, as we see him in Revelation 1:12-13. Because God commanded it as part of their duty on his behalf, separating the priesthood from teaching and instruction in the Law would have been unthinkable to the Jewish mind. Certainly, God was not preventing the people from learning, praying, or studying the Law on their own; he was protecting them from doctrinal error and preserving th...