{"id":115,"date":"2021-03-08T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T06:27:04","slug":"cleansing-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/08\/cleansing-the-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleansing the Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Cleansing The Temple<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">7 March 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Kippax Uniting Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Robbie Tulip<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cleansing-The-Temple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cleansing-The-Temple-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cleansing-The-Temple-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cleansing-The-Temple-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cleansing-The-Temple-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cleansing-The-Temple-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cleansing-The-Temple.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2019%3A1-8&amp;version=ESV\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2019%3A1-8&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psalm 19:1-8<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%202%3A13-17&amp;version=ESV\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%202%3A13-17&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John 2: 13-17<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our readings for today are from Psalm 19 and the Gospel of Saint John.&nbsp; The Psalm explains how the glory of God is revealed in the magnificent order of the visible heavens. The Gospel reading tells of Jesus driving the moneychangers and their animals out of the temple in Jerusalem.&nbsp; I will use this opportunity to explain how these texts relate to my own theology, which differs quite markedly from conventional approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before getting into my own interpretation, it is important to reflect on the great power of the Gospel story of the cleansing of the Temple.&nbsp; The courage and vision of Christ are presented by John at the beginning of Jesus","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleansing The Temple 7 March 2021 Kippax Uniting Church Robbie Tulip Psalm 19:1-8, John 2: 13-17 Our readings for today are from Psalm 19 and the Gospel of Saint John.&nbsp; The Psalm explains how the glory of God is revealed in the magnificent order of the visible heavens. The Gospel reading tells of Jesus driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}