Q & R with Brad: “Doesn’t Isaiah 59:1-2 Teach Separation from God?”
QUESTION: Hi Brad, I love the article you wrote on separation/alienation but I am having problems understanding the separation verses in scripture. The specific scripture I had trouble interpreting in light of your article on “separation” was Isaiah 59:1-2. Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That […]
Audio – Eden Jersak “Finding Your Voice by Listening to the Father”
Eden Jersak’s sermon (35 min.), Feb. 2019 at the Bridge, Abbotsford. “Finding your voice by listening to the Father.”
“MY GOD, MY GOD” — The cry for help, heard & answered (biblical date) Brad Jersak
“And about the middle of the afternoon Jesus shouted out in a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? –which means, “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?” (Matt. 27:46). I can’t think of too many biblical passages that are more important and more misinterpreted than the oft-described “cry of dereliction.” So much has been […]
Freedom Ministries Interview: Brad Jersak with Chris Abeyta
The Radical Inclusion and the Glorious Uniqueness of Christ – Brad Jersak
The Meeting Place: Facilitating Encounters with God – Brad Jersak
The Meeting Place is a meditative exercise in the traditions of the Psalmist and Ignatian spirituality. I learned it through the writings of the Spanish mystics, St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. We began practicing it in the context of inner healing ministry in the 1990s with dramatic effects, especially in the […]
Q: How do we avoid cherry-picking the Bible for a God of Love of our own wishes? Brad Jersak
QUESTION: How do you respond to people who object that we are imposing our own ideology of peace onto the Bible rather than letting the Bible speak for itself. When you “unwrath God,” aren’t you cherry-picking according to our own wishes for what you wish the text had said rather than submitting to what it […]
The Scandal of the Cross [or Lethal Injection Table] – Brad Jersak
This week I have been pondering afresh the scandal of the Cross as I read (for probably the fifth time) an article by Wm. Paul Young titled “The Killing House.” He writes about his experiences in visiting men on “death row,” scheduled for execution, most probably by lethal injection. I began to imagine Christ dying […]
The Bible: what is, how it came to be, what it’s for – Brad Jersak
Memory Eternal: My friend, Eugene Peterson – by Brad Jersak
This week marked the passing of my friend, Eugene H. Peterson, into that place of brightness and refreshing, where sorrow and mourning are no more, and Christ wipes away every tear from our eyes. I don’t call Peterson ‘my friend’ lightly. Nor do I intend to pseudo-humbly, not-so-subtly name drop. In one of the more […]