Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

This is one of Luke's “parable-stories”; he means to suggest that this is true discipleship: asking Jesus to cure our blindness so that we can follow him on the way of the cross. Pray to the father.and ask intersession thru the son.But if you aren't already lifed up a more robust action may be required.Just saying. [June 9, 2013] The story of Jesus raising the only son of a widow in the town of Nain concludes Luke's introduction of Jesus as the Lord and Bringer of the coming Jubilee (see Luke 4:16-21). Stories from Afghanistan: When God Ran--Jesus, the Prodigal Son, and Unexpected Common Ground in a Kabul Classroom. But that all changed when Jesus entered her life and brought her son back to her. This is strong evidence either that the gospel writers knew of (and could have been influenced by) resurrecting god stories from other cultures or that these stories influenced the Jesus story when it was told from person to person. At the time of Jesus' stay on the Earth some 2000 years ago the story of Dionysus and Osiris were well established but nobody seemed to notice the similarities between the 3 of them?? A Third Time Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection. This is the invitation that turns people away from Jesus. We in the Christian era view Elijah as prototype of the Jesus, the Christ – Messiah and Son of God. My own position is that Jesus' biological father remains unknown but is unlikely Joseph, husband of Mary. This is part two of my "Stories from Afghanistan" series. With the death of her only son, the widow in our story was once again victimized. This second lesson on the Baptism of Jesus turns to baptism. 31 Then he took the twelve aside and said to them, 'See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. And so people believed that Elijah would return to announce the beginning of the messianic age.