I ended the last article by referring to the Hebrew term שֵׁכָר or šēkār, traditionally translated “strong drink” and noted that we now understand that this likely refers to beer. Now, before you start imagining King David
If you missed New Room Conference, catch up on what participants have been saying on Twitter via the hashtag #NewRoom2014. We hope these will entice you to join us next year for this holy conferencing! We plan on having pictures and audio of the sessions available for download soon.
We modern people think of miracles as the intervention or suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant miracles to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus came to redeem where the world is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs of his power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. In the end, miracles are the restoration of order by Jesus’ interruption of the broken order or the way things work.
