Wow, my last update was Jan 11th. I'm bad. But we were studying the Psalms. I try not to update anything unless I have a moving thought. After the first week of reading Psalms, I guess my brain went dead.

But now we are studying the Gospel According to John! The New Testament at last. I feel like our group was sort of crawling to the finish line. But we made it. Here we are.

"In the beginning was the Word..." John begins his gospel with a prologue about the Word. The concept is logos in Greek. What an inspired concept John used. Here's why...

Hebrews understood the concept of God's Word as something connected to creation. "God said...and it was." From the Hebrew wisdom literature, wisdom was personified as standing with God at creation. The Gentile Greeks understood logos as the central organizing principle of the universe, sort of the content of God's mind if you will. So this one concept, Word or logos, would speak powerfully to both camps, Jew and Gentile. It was a bridge between the central theological ideas of Jew and Gentile.

And the logos became flesh and dwelled among us. His name is Jesus.