The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us how our end will be.” Jesus answered, “Have you then discovered the beginning so that you inquire about the end? For where the beginning is, there shall be the end. Blessed is he who shall stand at the beginning, and he shall know the end and he shall […]

Mary’s response to the Angel, who has just told her she will bring Jesus into the world, includes those words in one translation. I heard them at an Advent Service I attended in 1995 at Berkeley Divinity School. I have never been able to get past them. What does it mean for your soul to […]

His students said, “Each of Israel’s twenty-four prophets spoke about you.” Jesus said, “You ignore the living one in your presence and speak only about the dead.” (Logion 52) I agree that this Logion is about “presence.” In fact, it’s about “your presence.” So I’ll take that to mean me and tell you what it […]

Yeshua says, “So then, I must also tell you this: If the master of a household realizes that a thief is coming, He will keep watch before he gets there to prevent him from tunneling into his domain and stealing his possessions. So from the beginning of the cosmos, therefore, you must also keep watch […]