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Few Biblical figures command popular attention as Moses has. Cinematic productions as diverse as the Hollywood epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and DreamWorks’ animated The Prince of Egypt (1998) have brought his story to the screen. Christians recall that Moses and Elijah were the two prophets with Jesus on the mountain of His transfiguration (New International Version Bible, 2011, Mark 9:2-13). It was written that no other prophet since Moses has been like him, “whom the LORD knew face to face” (Deut 34:10). This blog post will roughly sketch out Moses’ transformation into a man “more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth” (Num 12:3). It will briefly survey Moses’ youthful audacity, his awareness of weakness, and then outline the others who he relied upon in his leadership. The blog post will then focus on Moses’ reliance on God and His Spirit, serving as someone “faithful in all [God’s] house (Num 12:7), drawing from his example lessons for us today.

上樓房，又名樓上大廳，是位於耶路撒冷舊城錫安山的一個房間，為《新約聖經》中許多事件的發生地點：

耶穌為門徒洗腳 《約翰福音》13:1-12

最後的晚餐 《路加福音》22:11-13

耶穌復活後顯現 《約翰福音》20:19

耶穌升天後，門徒在此聚集禱告 《使徒行傳》1:13-14

選出馬提亞為使徒 《使徒行傳》1:15-16

五旬節，聖靈澆灌在門徒身上 《使徒行傳》2:1-4

“Cenacle” 這字源於拉丁文 “cenaculum” ，指一個在樓上的房間或客廳。由於這個上樓房，記載了耶穌與門徒很多特別及重要的經歷，因此有考古學者在耶路撒冷推斷出這個地點。現今信徒去耶路撒冷朝聖，一定會去參觀 “Cenacle”。

～「酵」究竟是什麼？

～ 怎樣以「查考鑰字」（word study）的方法，認識《聖經》中的「酵」？

～ 形容「事件發酵」，通常帶有貶義。《聖經》中的「酵」又比喻什麼？是褒是貶，是好是壞？與我們生命又何干？

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商界領袖喜歡將矛盾的想法結合起來。《福布斯》(Forbes) 提出了「大處著眼，小處著手」(“think big, start small”) 的口號，以突出人工智能帶來的數碼化時代的轉變（Scalerandi，2024）。哲學家也不例外。在《道德經》中，老子也有類似的思考，指出「天下難事，必作於易，天下大事，必作於細（天下的難事，必從簡易的地方著手；天下的大事，必從細微的地方做起）」（Sturgeon, n.d.）。小與大之間的聯繫充滿矛盾，這個真理亦被耶穌巧妙地捕捉了。耶穌為了營造其聽眾的想像力：

他又設個比喻對他們說：「天國好像一粒芥菜種，有人拿去種在田裡。這原是百種裡最小的，等到長起來，卻比各樣的菜都大，且成了樹，天上的飛鳥來宿在它的枝上。」

-《馬太福音》13:31-32

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Business leaders like to pull paradoxical ideas together. Forbes invoked the “think big, start small” mantra to highlight transformation into a digital era with artificial intelligence (Scalerandi, 2024). Philosophers are no different. In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu mused similarly, claiming that “all difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small” (天下難事，必作於易，天下大事，必作於細; Sturgeon, n.d.). Jesus articulated truths that profoundly captures the paradoxical connection between small and great. Focusing His hearers’ imagination,

He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.  Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”

– Matthew 13: 31-32

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筆者最近研讀《約伯記》，得知有一種生物叫「力威亞探」，而且在《聖經》一共記載過五次。筆者從來沒留意過這細節，因此稍作研究後寫了這篇文章，讓大家一起參詳。

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這個問題在網絡找，可能會有許多答案。有些人認為教會和神的國一點關係都沒有，但也有些人認為神的國就是教會 (Ferguson, 1989, p. 67)。一直以來我們教會的教導對這個問題的答案是一個很肯定的「是」，也就是說教會就是神的國。但隨著時間和時代的變遷，有些門徒開始懷疑諸多以前所謹守的信念，甚至接受教會和神的國一點關係都沒有的說法。隨著人的成熟，我們發現許多事情和想法不應只是「有」或「沒有」，甚至「是」或「不是」的粗暴簡單。反而，我們可以明白更多當中的細節，以增加我們對屬靈的事情更了解，對神與祂的國度更認識。今天，透過經文的探討，我們將清楚看到教會的確是神的國，但同時，神的國不只是教會。