Mar 28, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
On the day we call Palm Sunday, a week before Easter, Jesus wanted a big celebration. Jesus had his friends find a donkey for him to ride on. Then he got on and rode the donkey into Jerusalem, while people lined the sides of the road. Some of them made a carpet for...
Mar 23, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Sometimes I think I’m like Lazarus, entombed in fear, apathy, prejudice, gloom, … But I have heard a call, “Rosalind, come out!” And I have stumbled out, still greatly hindered by the limiting layers of self-doubt, the old voices in my head that say, “You’re not good...
Mar 14, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Grief comes in many forms: grief at the death of a loved one or respected leader; grief as we watch illness rob someone of precious abilities; grief as we discover that we will never reach a cherished personal goal or grief when someone for whom we had high hopes...
Mar 7, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Water is the source of life, but also of destruction. Exodus 17 tells of people desperate for water. It wasn’t that others had appropriated that which was given for all. They just didn’t know where their next drink would come from, and they expected their leader to...
Mar 1, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Because I have usually looked at the story of Abram’s call through the lens of Romans 4: 1-5, I have taken it to be the story of one man’s faith journey. It is that, but it is more. Read on and see that the 75 year old Abram travelled with his wife Sarai, his nephew...
Feb 20, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
To what does your mind turn when you hear that it is the first Sunday in Lent? Perhaps it means nothing to you. I always remember my dear father faithfully giving up his half teaspoon of sugar in coffee (he didn’t take sugar in tea) every Lent. But is that the sort...
