I am a Catholic Christian who belongs to Árbol de Vida, an ecumenical community in San José, Costa Rica. Since its beginning as a small group of Evangelical and Catholic university students, Árbol de Vida has for 43 years maintained both its interchurch membership, as well as its commitment to ecumenism in the Sword of […]
John 15: 15 “I do not call you servants any longer … but I have called you friends” To be called a friend of God is to be like Abraham (2 Chronicles 20:7) or Moses (Exodus 33:11) who were called friends of God. The main image of our relationship with God in the Old Testament was as […]
When I was eight years old we lived in a rural French village. The public school we went to still had (Catholic) religion class, and I distinctly remember in the first class it was announced that a few of us (myself included) would be going to the computer room during the time. In some cases […]
John 15: 12 “Love one another as I have loved you” One day at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Brian, a chaplain to the Chi Alpha student outreach of the Assemblies of God Church asked me, “Can you give a talk to our students on the baptism in the Holy Spirit?” Was I ever surprised! […]
Hay una biblioteca secreta al subir las gradas de 31 Lynton Road. Durante mi año de brecha, tuve el privilegio de vivir en esa casa, el hogar de los Siervos de la Palabra en Londres. Me imagino que ese cuarto no es realmente secreto, es solo que está escondido fuera del paso. En cuanto a […]
John 15: 4 – “Abide in me as I abide in you” It is an undisputed botanical fact that a branch cut off from the stem or vine of a plant dies. It cannot bear fruit. This is the point which Jesus makes in John 15 when he states, “I am the vine…apart from me […]
El aspecto más importante para mi de vivir en una comunidad ecuménica de la Espada del Espíritu es que diariamente he orado y compartido con hermanos de distintas denominaciones cristianas por casi 40 años. Yo crecí en Belfast, Irlanda del Norte en los 1960s/70s y me tocó vivir “El conflicto norirlandés” (30 años de violencia […]
Juan 15: 16a “No me escogieron ustedes a mí, sino que yo los escogí a ustedes” La idea de ‘ser escogido’ puede sonar como elitismo para mucha gente. Las elecciones de Dios, sin embargo, no se basan en las cualidades superiores de una persona o un grupo. El escoge personas para llevar a plenitud su plan […]
Introduction The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is actually an eight-day observance or “octave” of prayer. It has been this way since the beginnings of this international movement in 1908. This is now the Sword of the Spirit’s 11th year of participating internationally in this worldwide observance. This year we are using the Bible passages proposed […]
– por Bruce Yocum Diciembre, el final del año natural 2020, y el COVID-19 sigue con nosotros. Aquí en Inglaterra, donde vivo, se acaban de introducir nuevas y severas restricciones, eliminando casi toda posibilidad de que la gente celebre la Navidad junto con algo más que la familia inmediata o el hogar. Existe la preocupación […]
