One of our family’s favorite movies, especially when our kids were at home, was “The Princess Bride.” Many of its lines were quoted at home in our daily conversations — and still are, on our family Facebook chat group. Of course one of the most famous lines of the show is where the evil architect, Vezzini, keeps saying, “Inconceivable,” to a series of events, and Inigo Montoya finally says: “You keep using that word; I don’t think it means what you think it means”!
Well, there are a lot of words which people use today, and you wonder if they know what they really mean. One of them is the word “gospel.” You hear that word all the time: “gospel music,” “gospel preaching,” “gospel choir”, “gospel singing,” and even “the gospel truth.” But what does “gospel” really mean?
As many of you know, the word “gospel” literally means “good news.” It’s the same in the New Testament: “eu-angellion,” means “good message,” or “good news.” But even understanding that “gospel” means “good news,” many do not really know just what that “good news” IS. Thankfully we had the blessing this last week of reading in our daily Bible readings, this passage in I Corinthians 15 which tells us all about “the gospel.”
Paul begins :1 saying, “Now I make known to you brethren, the GOSPEL …”. Let’s look together at what God tells us in this passage about The Gospel: Continue reading
On the coastline of Japan, by the little village of Aneyoshi, is an ancient stone tablet. Engraved on this tablet is a somber warning: “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes beyond this point.” In 2011, as you may remember, a great tsunami did indeed strike the coast of Japan. Every home in Aneyoshi, built above that warning marker, survived — unlike thousands of others along the coast who ignored that warning, and over 29,000 people were killed when the tsunami struck. The people of Aneyoshi wisely listened to the ancient warning, and were saved.
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