Mar 5, 2025 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
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 concede)....
Feb 26, 2025 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
“Show me your glory I pray”(Ex 33v19) … 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...
Feb 20, 2025 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Radical Humility, Radical Generosity Jesus tells his disciples to live lives that are radically different from the world — even the world of good people of faith. The life Jesus calls them to — calls us to — is counter to common sense. For instance he tells them to...
Feb 14, 2025 | 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) “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 each...
Feb 6, 2025 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Deep Water This is basically what we see happening in today’s Gospel. Peter and his companions are the experts when it comes to fishing in that lake. But even so, after a whole night’s work they have nothing to show for their efforts. Then Jesus, after he had finished...
Feb 1, 2025 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
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...
