Category Archives: Parade

August 20, 2007

The Public Spectacle (inspired by today’s sermon)– also posted in Kenotic Christology, Politics, worship

Colossians 2:15 “Jesus disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them.”
In the ancient world, victorious armies made ‘public spectacles’ of their defeated opponents. These spectacles involved parading the defeated soldiers and generals through the main center of the town, naked and shackled, humiliated and utterly defeated, trailing [...]