All,
Just wanted to thank everyone for keeping this post active and I enjoy the other threads coming out of this. Keep up the good blogging. Hope to speak to all of you soon on the Siel Server. Vote Sons of Thunder!
why “sons of thunder”? The Bible never fully explains this interesting nickname, but we can see the cause of it in the lives of these two men
A. They were quick to protect Jesus, though their zeal was misplaced - Mark 9:38-40
B. When Jesus was rejected by the Samaritans because he was traveling to Jerusalem, James and John wanted to avenge the insult - Luke 9:51-56
C. They had great zeal, but, like the Jewish people as a whole, it was not founded in knowledge - Romans 10:1-3
D. They, and their family, wanted to be great in Jesus’s kingdom - Matthew 20:20-28
1. We often think how pushy their mother was, but notice that they were willing to suffer for Christ and Christ granted that it would be so.
2. It was Peter and John who were arrested and threatened - Acts 4:13-21
3. James was the first apostle to die for the faith - Acts 12:1-2
a. I suspect that it was the son of thunder who stood out, making him the easy target.