 | Robert Warren - 2004 - 182 pages
...is called to express the life of Jesus Christ, who lived the truth that Unless a grain of wheat fall into the earth and dies, it remains just a single...grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (John 1224) Mark 5: operates as a community Study passages Ephesians 4. 7- 16 or 4.25 - 5.2 m So what makes for... | |
 | Mary Lou Pazik - 2004 - 342 pages
...(jod'We Serve: Memoirs from Message 76 John 12:24-26 "Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal... | |
 | Tina Lillig - 2004 - 132 pages
...the child's unspoken question by going to the words of Jesus in John 12:24: "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." The material that helps the children experience these words consists of a tray holding plantings of... | |
 | Jean Lafrance - 2004 - 334 pages
...must 22 allow him to renew in our flesh his mystery of death and resurrection: Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit (Jn 12:24). In order to abide in God constantly, we must especially keep our heart in the quiet recollection... | |
 | Roger Van Harn - 2004 - 322 pages
...to explain the significance of what is to happen: "Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (12:24). There follows a passage often taken to be John's equivalent to Gethsemane, an incident omitted... | |
 | Jean Vanier - 2004 - 364 pages
...hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain. But if it dies it bears much fruit. " w. 23-24 Jesus is announcing his death, and from this death new lite will flow into peoples hearts,... | |
 | F. Lynne Bachleda - 2004 - 220 pages
...must love it. KARL RAHNER from The Gteat Church Year VERY TRULY, 1 TELL YOU, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. JESUS in the Gospel of John 12:24 S1NCE WE FIRST THOUGHT ro worship anything, what points to the immanent... | |
 | Larry Hollar - 2004 - 244 pages
...The believer participates in the riddle of the grain of wheat (John 12:24): "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." This is just another way of saying that when we lose our old ways, we can enjoy abundant new life by... | |
 | Christine Ledger, Stephen K. Pickard - 2004 - 268 pages
...because he gave up his own existence in order to produce further life. For 'unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it yields much' (John 12,24). On this view, it is to be expected that the creation of order includes the... | |
 | Luke Timothy Johnson - 2004 - 212 pages
...have it abundantly' (10:10). John expresses the logic of sacrifice this way: 'unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain: but if it dies, then it bears much fruit' (John 12:24). At his last meal, according to Luke 22: 19, Jesus told his... | |
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