John Arnold

How can we come to understand more fully our own story of sin and redemption? This beautiful series of meditations addresses that need. Each chapter moves us one step along the path, and we’re also guided by the author’s metaphors of wood, trees, and the cross of Christ as we travel. We start in the garden of Eden, and end at the Tree of Life in the New Jerusalem.Along the way, we encounter biblical passages, pictures by Rembrandt, and insights from such great works of Russian literature as “A Tree Falls in Siberia” as the author brings important questions to our attention. John Arnold has created a series of contemplative readings that will remain with the reader long after reading them.

Meditations on the Garden, the Cross, and the Tree of Life

Life Conquers Death

JOSHUA WILSON

The survivor is a sign of hope - but only if you survives not just biologically, not just as an animal but as a human being, with his moral and emotional faculties intact and purified.

It is great imaginative writers like Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare who can recreate from introspection the truth that is stranger than either fiction or history.

A man from whom you have taken everything is no longer in your power. He is free all over again.

If the man who dies on the cross is not God himself, then the cross is simply one tragedy among many, and God loses evil more moral credibility.

It was appropriate that the Son of Man, when He was seen to be the Son of God, should suffer. It was a moral necessity and a divine obligation. It was not inevitable, but it was a conscious choice.

The thief on the right hand on the cross was the only one who ever refers to Jesus as "Jesus" in the Gospel.

Perhaps he has read the ironic superscription recorded in Greek by Luke as "this is the king of the Jews", and he had seen more deeply into its essential meaning than had those only response was mockery and cynicism. More likely it was the Aramaic form "Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews" he read, for he addressed Jesus by name.

This is the only place in the Gospels where anyone simply addressed our lord as "Jesus", the name which is above every name and which, after all, is a simple sentence meaning "God saves".

Anthony Bloom used to say that tradition is the living faith of dead people, and traditionalism is the dead faith of living people.

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