[Propertalk] Quotes - Luke 2:41-52, 2 Christmas, Jan. 3 - Part 1

[Joe Parrish]

I like what old Rowland Hill said, when some one told him that he was "moderately religious." "Well then, you are irreligious, for a man that is moderately honest is a rogue for certain; and so the man that is moderately religious is irreligious." If religion be worth anything it is worth everything; if it be anything it is everything. Religion cannot go halves with anything else, it must be all. 
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If you make your own business God's business, you will do your business well; and you will be useful in your day and generation. Never shall we see any great revival in the church, or any great triumphs of religion until the Christian world is more touched with the spirit of entire consecration to Christ. When the world shall see as in earnest then God will bring men in; not before. 

http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0122.htm

The REV. C. H. Spurgeon, March 15, 1857
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He is twelve and just been through the bar mitzvah. 
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Jesus was missing for three days. Not one, not two, not four, but three days. Three days is important in this gospel because Christ was in the grave for three days, the temple was supposed to be destroyed rebuilt in three days, and Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days. Luke knew the way he was going to use the concept of "three days" later in the gospel. "Three days" are important to the story. 
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Jesus first words. <>, I MUST ["is binding to me" - Greek] be in my Father's house. 
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Jesus said, "Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"  The first thing that Jesus says about himself that God is his Father. My Father is not Joseph but my Father is God. . 

http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/series_c_age12.htm

Edward F. Markquart
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Passover was eight days long and a grand vacation from school and work. Hundreds of thousands, maybe a million people, jammed into Jerusalem for the party.
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The two words, MY FATHER, was said by Jesus 43 times in the first four gospels, especially in the Gospel of John. 
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The primary reason that the Jewish leaders plotted to kill Jesus was because of those words. They didn't try to kill Jesus because he taught that "God is love." They didn't try to kill him because that he taught there were two great commandments, to love God and neighbor. Those teachings didn't get him into to trouble. But when Jesus said, MY FATHER, implying that he was the Son of God, they decided to kill him. 
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I believe that Jesus was a child prodigy in spirituality and his relationship with God. 

http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/series_c_age_12_in_the_temple.htm

Edward F. Markquart
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While devotion to the Sto. Niño has done much to sustain the faith of the people there are those who argue that it has not helped them to mature. It is an image that has Jesus as an infant and yet dressed as an adult. It seems to indicate by-passing the difficult and necessary formative stage of adolescence. 
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Very often we do not have listening in a family because there is fear. There may be fear of appearing weak, of losing face or authority, or of being refused or punished. This fear leads one to want to control by threat or violence so that the other person then becomes afraid. If, on the other hand, there is honest listening there will be a realization that there is a fearful human being at the other side. It is very hard, but necessary, for parents to admit their own fears and weakness sometimes to their children. They begin this process by listening to what is going on in their own hearts in prayer. Having listened to the fears within they can begin to listen to the fears of others and that is the beginning of love.

http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/daily/sundays_pierse/cycleC/C_Feast%20of%20StoNino.htm

Gerry Pierse
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days. It seems like one minute you are trying to encourage your child to go faster on his bicycle, to get up enough speed to stay balanced, and the next you are pleading with the same boy now at the wheel of a car, pleading with him to slow down and live. One minute you're urging a shy daughter to say hello to strangers, and the very next, you're trying to discourage her from responding to strangers on the Internet.
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...a very small classic by J. B. Philips entitled Your God is Too Small. That was one book that I never really got around to reading. The title told me what I needed to know--the God I had been trying so hard to believe in was not God but the figment of a small child's imagination. The Jesus I could not follow was the creation of popular religion and not the Jesus of the New Testament. Jesus is growing up fast in Luke's Gospel. The irony of faith is that to grow with Jesus we have to slow the story down. To grow with Jesus, our living Lord, we must give one another and we must allow ourselves the time to ask our questions, to seek in order that we might find, to doubt our doubts.

http://day1.org/654-question_time

Sid Burgess, 2000
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