Böcker av Pastor Pedro Montoya

The Preaching of the Cross is a pastoral study material based on the text of chapter six of the Epistle to the Hebrews. The writer exposes in his dialogue with the recipients of the epistle the content of the doctrinal themes that they received from the beginning of their conversion, and by the way that the writer exposes them in relation to their spiritual growth and maturity, we note that these doctrinal themes were in their time the doctrinal ensemble of what eventually became known as the doctrine of the apostles. The preaching of the Cross is the main message of the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven preached from the time when John the Baptist began to preach, until the resurrection of Jesus, when the cycle of the work of redemption for humanity was closed. Thus, then, the preaching of the Cross became the collection of the basic doctrines of Salvation and Eternal Life.

Los otros días leyendo en el tratado de Lucas dirigido a su antiguo amigo Teófilo, en el relato de cuando Simón Pedro, Juan y Jacobo, y posiblemente otros pescadores no mencionados en el relato, fueron testigos del poder de Jesús de provocar un milagro impresionante, de hacer surgir peces donde no los había, y producto de ello, la decisión de cada uno de dejarlo todo por seguir a Jesús, no pude menos que preguntar, ¿Qué fue lo que realmente llevó a Pedro, a Juan y a Jacobo a tomar semejante decisión por seguir a Jesús? Ese día los pescadores dejaron su oficio, sus familias, su responsabilidad ante la comunidad, literalmente, lo dejaron todo. ¿Por qué? ¿Qué encontraron los pescadores en Jesús que estuvieron dispuestos a tal decisión? El milagro no solo lo fue para tres pescadores, o los pescadores que hubieran estado con ellos, el milagro lo fue para toda la multitud agolpada esa mañana a orillas de la mar. ¿Merece el esfuerzo conocer de Dios y seguir a Jesús? Merece el esfuerzo si aceptamos a vivir bajo el conocimiento de que Dios tiene cuidado de quienes estén dispuestos a confiar en Él.

Recently while teaching the Introduction to the New Testament course and discussing how the apostle John presented in his gospel the works of Jesus in exactly seven miracles, which the apostle calls signs, the Lord led me to compare the purpose of the seventh sign, the resurrection of Lazarus, with the purpose for our time of the two recent events that captured everyone's attention in 2010. I am referring to the earthquake in Haiti on January 12th and the confinement and eventual rescue of the 33 miners at the San José mine in Chile on October 13th of that same year. Although the apostle acknowledges that the works of Jesus were so many that if all of them were written, not even the world could contain the books that would have been written; however, the apostle only highlights seven miracles of all of them. John presents these seven signs as if they were seven great lessons (as presented in Genesis the seven days of creation) and from each of them he highlights how God establishes with signs His methodology of operation in the midst of the times.