May 16, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
It was fifty days since Jesus had risen from the dead on Easter morning and fifty days after the Jewish celebration of Passover. For the Jewish people, this was another big holiday, called Pentecost. People had come to Jerusalem from many different countries to...
May 9, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
“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) But who is whom, exactly?? At first glance, it can be very easy to decide which of these applies to ourselves. Or not. “I don’t follow the way of the...
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...
