Leonard Layne

“He shared in flesh and blood, and even death itself (verse 14). There is nothing we face, today or tomorrow or the next day, in which Jesus cannot sympathize, help and rescue us, and through which he cannot forge a way to God’s new world. HEBREWS 3.1–6 Jesus and Moses 1Well then, my brothers and sisters: you are God’s holy ones, and you share the”
― Tom Wright, Hebrews for Everyone

“God, our merciful Father, you who do not despise the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desires of those who are sorrowful: In your mercy teach and help us to pray to you whenever we are oppressed by adversity or trouble; and graciously hear us so that by your providence the evils brought against us by the cunning and the mischief of the devil or of human beings, may come to nothing; and grant that we, your servants, being harmed by no persecutions, may give thanks and praise to you in your HOLY Church; through Jesus Christ our LORD. Amen.”
― The Anglican Communion, Anglican Prayer Book

“This peculiar performance of the fish, serving as God’s obedient instrument, is in keeping with the cattle and sheep in Nineveh, bizarrely required to don sackcloth and fast together with the human beings, and, in the”
― Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible