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John Tradition Perspectives

17 illustrations — Illustrations from diverse theological traditions

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Lens Perspective

The Anchor That Holds When the Diagnosis Comes

In 2019, a seminary professor received a stage-three cancer diagnosis. His colleagues expected devastation. Instead, they found him at his desk the next morning, Bible...

John 14:27Liberation Theologypeace

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Lens Perspective

The Candle That Burns Without Flickering

In the monastery chapel at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during night vigils when the wind howled against the Kentucky hills, rattling windows...

John 14:27Charismaticpeace

Lens Perspective

The Unshakable Word Behind an Unshakable Peace

In John 14:27, Jesus declares, "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to...

John 14:27Liberation Theologypeace

Lens Perspective

The Room With No Doors

In her autobiography, Teresa of Avila describes the soul's interior castle — room after room leading deeper toward the center where God dwells. Most of...

John 14:27Charismaticpeace

Lens Perspective

The Well Beneath the Storm

In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during night prayer when a violent thunderstorm shook the abbey walls. The windows rattled,...

John 14:27Charismaticpeace

Lens Perspective

The Silence Between the Words

When Jesus spoke, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you," He was not offering a concept to be grasped but a...

John 14:27Charismaticpeace

Lens Perspective

The Table We Keep Setting

When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers would worship the Father in spirit and truth, He was dismantling every velvet rope religion had...

John 4:23-24Dispensationalworship

Lens Perspective

The Tuning Fork of Truth

In the early days of orchestral music, before electronic tuners existed, every musician depended on a single tuning fork. Its tone was fixed, unyielding, determined...

John 4:23-24Liberation Theologyworship

Lens Perspective

The Surveyor's Benchmark

In the early days of American westward expansion, government surveyors drove brass benchmarks into solid bedrock across the continent. These small, unassuming discs became the...

John 14:27Liberation Theologypeace

Lens Perspective

The Blueprints That Cannot Bend

In 1978, a structural engineer in Kansas City discovered that a contractor had quietly modified the steel connection design for the Hyatt Regency hotel walkways....

John 4:23-24Liberation Theologyworship

Lens Perspective

Worship by the Book

In 1923, J. Gresham Machen stood before Princeton Seminary and warned that the greatest threat to the church was not persecution but the slow replacement...

John 4:23-24Liberation Theologyworship

Lens Perspective

The Garden Between the Walls

In downtown Portland, a vacant lot sat wedged between a luxury condo development and a Section 8 housing complex. For years it collected broken glass...

John 14:27Dispensationalpeace

Lens Perspective

The Table That Kept Expanding

In 2019, a small congregation in Portland set a long wooden table on the sidewalk outside their church every Sunday evening. They called it the...

John 14:27Dispensationalpeace

Lens Perspective

The River That Refused to Be Still

When Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give as the world gives," He was not offering...

John 14:27Dispensationalpeace

Lens Perspective

A Peace That Disrupts

When Jesus told His disciples, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world...

John 14:27Dispensationalpeace

Lens Perspective

The River That Refuses to Be Dammed

When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers would worship the Father "in spirit and truth," He was dismantling every boundary religion had constructed...

John 4:23-24Dispensationalworship

Lens Perspective

Worship Beyond the Walls

When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers would worship the Father "in spirit and truth," He was dismantling the very boundaries that kept...

John 4:23-24Dispensationalworship