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    Not by Bread Alone: Fifty-Two Weekly Reflections on the Matters That Matter Most
    Not by Bread Alone: Fifty-Two Weekly Reflections on the Matters That Matter Most
    Not by Bread Alone: Fifty-Two Weekly Reflections on the Matters That Matter Most
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    Not by Bread Alone: Fifty-Two Weekly Reflections on the Matters That Matter Most

    By Richard M. Gray

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    What was the core message of Jesus of Nazareth? It is there in the opening chapter of the gospel of Mark: The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. That kingdom, of course, is not one of this world but one of the spirit, which Jesus stated clearly to Pontius Pilate. And just as we need food (the staple of which is bread) to live in the world, we also need spiritual food to live in the world of the spirit. The purpose of this little volume is to help provide a small ration of such food every week of the year.

    From Emeritus New Testament Professor of San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, Herman Waetjen: I have found Grays poems to be soulful and profound. They express the pioneering of Jesus of Nazareth in a fresh and original way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateOct 19, 2012
    ISBN9781449770822
    Not by Bread Alone: Fifty-Two Weekly Reflections on the Matters That Matter Most
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    Richard M. Gray

    A former creative director for N.W. Ayer & Son, Inc., a national advertising agency, Richard M. Gray is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bucknell University. He holds a master of divinity degree summa cum laude from San Francisco Theological Seminary and a PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. The founder of two schools, World College West and Presidio Graduate School, he was married for seventy years to Catherine Hammond Gray until she died in 2013. He has two daughters and three grandchildren and lives in Greenbrae, California, a suburb of San Francisco.

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      Not by Bread Alone - Richard M. Gray

      What’s In a Name?

      Moses said to God, If I come to the people of Israel and say to them ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I AM Who I AM. Say this to the people, ‘I AM has sent me to you.

      This enigmatic answer by the Nameless One is preceded by the promise that the way Moses will know that God has called him is that he (Moses) will return from Egypt with his people and worship God upon this mountain. The sign, therefore, that Moses has been called will be his carrying out the mission. Not the most reassuring of signs.

      Then when Jesus appeared, many hundreds of years later, he used this same enigmatic name in reference to himself. This was blasphemy. It was this name as much as his cleansing of the Temple that resulted in his crucifixion.

      Whatever else it means, it is clear that I AM is the God not just of creation but also of history, the God who acts in human affairs.

      I Am

      I Am, the Galilean said.

      Knowing he needed say no more

      Than these the words that Moses heard

      Beside the bush, so long before.

      This was the name the nameless one

      Had given as a guarantee

      That he would be their sovereign Lord

      Through time and all eternity.

      And now the one who called himself

      The Son of Man had come to be

      The incarnation of that pledge

      To all of those who would be free.

      Free from the dull disquietude

      That tempers every human breath,

      Free from the greed that chokes its children,

      Free from the awesome fear of death.

      What did it mean, this cryptic phrase?

      Was it meant to mask a mystery

      That those constrained by time and space

      Can scarcely know, or feel, or see?

      Or was it simply an invitation

      To live within his loving care?

      A message sealed in sacrifice,

      The promise that I will be there.

      A Covenant is Forever

      The Old Covenant (Testament in Latin) is old only in the sense that it predates what Christians call the New Covenant (or New Testament), not in the sense that the old is superseded by the new.

      A covenant made by God is irrevocable; it is made once for all. Even Jeremiah’s prophecy, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah, is new only in that it is unlike the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

      What is the nature of the new covenant? That it is no longer external (i.e. simply taught by others) but rather internal. I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts. No longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

      The old covenant is still in force!

      Hear, O Israel

      Hear, O Israel, once for all,

      The joy and burden of your call:

      The Lord your God, the Lord is One,

      And you shall love Him like a son,

      With all your heart, and mind, and soul,

      Fit for your mission, cleansed and whole.

      Remember, Israel, it was He

      Who from your bondage set you free.

      He brought you to a promised land,

      And taught you there to understand

      That you were His so you might be

      A light for all the world to see.

      If the living God called Abraham friend,

      His covenant will never end.

      It stands in perpetuity

      Until the end of history!

      In the Morning, Gladness

      From A to Z — anger to zeal — almost every human emotion can be found in the Psalms, which subjectively reflect every hope and fear of the human heart. But the chief emotion expressed in the Psalms, literally scores of times, is that of joy — especially joy in the presence of God. And this joy is often preceded by a sense of hopelessness or

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