Queen's Road Cell

In this last chapter Edmund Chan looks at Jesus' last words recorded in the Gospel according to Luke (23:46). In the other Gospels there is no record of Jesus calling out, "Into Your hands I commit my spirit". Luke makes it explicit that the "loud cry" mentioned in Matthew 27:50 and Mark  15:37 was indeed this very statement. John instead records Jesus' dying words as "It is finished" (GK: tetelestai ) instead. Tradition places the loud cry of "Into Your hands I commit my spirit" ("The (7th)word of reunion") after "It is finished" ("The (6th)word of triumph"). It is a quote from Ps 31:5 - " Into your hand I commit my spirit, you have redeemed me, O Lord , faithful God." Do we shout in trust before or after we have finished our work? I think the gospels are not clear, but the traditional sequence seems more likely to me since it makes more logical sense. Theologically it also makes more sense that C...

I was sharing about my realization that God really, really loves us (For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him - Ps 103:11). He cannot love us any more than he does, and His electing love for us does not change when we are foolish and sinful. And I thought of how we are meant to love one another as Jesus loves us (Jn 11:35). I feel ashamed to think of how my love for people around is conditional on how they behave. We are to live a life shaped by the grace of the gospel - the grace we ourselves have received. We talked about the pastoral issue of Christians who have depression and anxiety. I was asking how we resolve the issue of the Bible commanding us "Do not fear" or "be anxious for nothing" (Phil 4:6) or  "My grace is sufficient" (2 Cor 12:9). My thought is that some of us do not have perfect mental health from genetic or environmental factors, and that we sometimes need not only prayer, Scriptural en...