![]() ![]() The disciples are with Jesus in a boat they’ve left their familiar surroundings and are going to the far side of the lake – Jesus’ first foray into Gentile land. Luke tells the story in just four short verses, but it speaks profoundly about faith and trust – or the lack of it.Īgain images abound. It appears in both Matthew’s and Mark’s gospels too. It’s a familiar story of Jesus stilling the storm. And for Christians in Jesus, literally the Word made flesh, we see that new covenant, that new promise of faithfulness, trust and love.Īnd so we turn to our gospel passage. The former Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, has remarked that the purest line of covenant says, ‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me’.Ĭovenant is the giving of a pledge, a promise, it’s giving you my word. It’s what allows us to face the future without fear, because we know we are not alone. Ĭovenant is that bond of love and trust between God and his creation. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness,Īnd you shall know the Lord. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and justice, love and compassion. No one put it more simply than the prophet Hosea, in words that Jews still say every weekday morning at the start of their prayers: That word ‘covenant’ is a key word in the Hebrew Bible, our Old Testament, where it occurs more than 250 times. There’s surely a conscious echo here of the rainbow that Noah saw after the waters subsided following the flood (Genesis 9: 8–17), a sign of God’s covenant love and faithfulness for his creation. ![]() In the words of Psalm 19, ‘The heavens are telling the glory of God and the firmament proclaims his handiwork’.įor me there’s one picture that speaks particularly powerfully when St John uses the imagery of a rainbow around the throne. The Victorian art critic and historian John Ruskin saw the whole earth as sacred: ‘Wherever we are moved by the beauty and power of nature, God has let down a ladder for us from heaven’. We can sense some of that glory of the Creator God around us, in all that is good or beautiful or noble – a creation imbued with love. Instead the words convey a sense of sheer awe and wonder, boundless light illuminating every corner and before which no one and nothing is hidden or concealed. We note that there is no personal picture or description of God. For St John is really using words to describe the indescribable the language is bound to fall short before the all-powerful Creator God in whom we live and move and have our being – the God who was, and is and is to come. ![]() There’s no need – and perhaps it might even be a mistake – to try to ascribe exact meanings to every specific detail of what’s mentioned, as if there were a secret key to decode it all in detail. There’s an abundance of signs and symbols which stretch our imagination. #I am jesus christ torrent torrent#We have a torrent of them in the vision of St John the Divine in Revelation – trumpets, thrones, winged creatures and more. This Sunday both our epistle and gospel are inundated with images. I run the images through a batch encoder with Irfanview to get rid of black borders on the image, rename the files, and conform them to jpg.Ħ.A torrent of images to describe the indescribable Stephen Adam, 24 February 2019 and bring down the number of stills to my 60-65 golden number.ĥ. I go through the folder again (immediately)looking at the frames on large preview and try and remove frames that replicate a certain lighting style or framing. I’m then left with usually around 80-100 really interesting frames. I view all the frames as a slideshow and I remove any frame that there are doubles of (someone might be blinking in first frame and normal in second) or remove any that seem less interesting this time around.Ĥ. So the next step is to edit, usually there might be a week or 2 between the first grab and this edit stage. This usually leaves me with around 200-250 frames per film. Depending on mood I could spend a few hours just doing the grabbingģ. I watch through the movies on VLC, usually between 3x and 4x speed while listening to podcasts, grabbing any frame that interests me. i try to keep a mix of styles.genres/directors and DP’s so I dont get bored while working.Ģ. Make a to do pile, its a combination of recommendations, stuff Ive been enjoying myself, stuff I want to rewatch…. Hi Arturo, Ive considered having a donate button, but I feel bad for asking for money, maybe I’ll post an amazon wishlist so people can contribute in that way sending me movies I want to feature on the site.ġ. ![]()
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