May 2, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
In today’s Gospel, Jesus does not say, “Love Jesus or love God as I have loved you”. No, he says: This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. If we really love our brothers and sisters, including strangers and even enemies, we do not have to...
Apr 23, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
We love those we know and who are like us. We hold no fear. There is nothing to muddy our sanitised world views. It is easy to be the person of faith in that place. But we are not given that luxury. We must love the invisible ones, the ones who are different from us,...
Apr 16, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
If there is one image associated with the Christian faith which has found an enduring and endearing place in the collective life of the church for centuries, it is the image of Jesus as the good shepherd. In the Bible there are over 500 references to sheep. In Psalm...
Apr 10, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
The disciples are huddling together and have just heard Simon’s account of his walk with Cleopas to Emmaus, and how a stranger had started walking and talking with them. He is talking about how they were surprised that this stranger did not seem to know what had...
Apr 4, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Imagine how it must have been for Mary, weeping outside the tomb, to then look into the tomb and see two angels sitting where the body of Jesus had been laid. Not an absence, but a presence – messengers from God; but they weren’t Jesus! And what anguish...
