Mar 4, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE
This is how you destroy a conversation and replace it with an awkward silence at our dinner table. Simply ask, “So, what is everyone giving up for lent?” Works a charm! 40 days is not a long time really. Well it’s a long time to go without chocolate I do...
Mar 1, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE
‘Show me your glory I pray’(v19) says Moses during one of his regular and frank discussions with his maker. What was he asking? Is he still questioning the one who had guided him on this historic journey since the epiphany at the burning bush? Was God’s explanation of...
Feb 17, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE
GOD’S NEW WORLD Over the years, this text has driven me nuts! It’s easy to be glib or brutal about forgiveness. “Move on – it’s past history” “You should forgive…..” But it’s not that simple. Can we, would we, try to blot out the past; pretend that certain things...
Feb 13, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE
“Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked… but their delight is in the way of the Lord” (Ps 1:1,2) “Blessed are you who are poor…” (Luke 6:20) “But woe to you who are rich…” (6:24) But who is whom, exactly?? Sitting these two passages alongside...
Feb 11, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE
Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats,...
Feb 4, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE
Insiders and outsiders. Part of the contrast and reversals that characterise the whole of Luke. From one moment to the next Jesus goes from being the insider, a home-grown hero, to an outsider who condemns his own hometown. It often feels as if we need to go away on...
