Jul 6, 2022 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
We have had Royal Commissions investigating institutional sexual abuse, and institutional financial abuse. Such abuses destroys lives and livelihoods. It confounds the people on the receiving end of abuse. They do not know where to turn for help. According to the...
Jun 29, 2022 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS, Uncategorized
The Commissioning of the Seventy(two)* *This is an example of where different early manuscripts say different things, and so this has been carried through in our different translations of the Bible. This passage is a mirroring of the commissioning of the twelve in...
Jun 23, 2022 | EXPERIENCING FAITH, NEWS
Today’s Gospel marks a turning point in Luke’s story of Jesus. He is going to Jerusalem because the time is drawing near for him to be taken up into heaven. He responds resolutely to God’s plan, cost him what it may. The disciples he wants to be with...
Jun 15, 2022 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
This passage from Luke is a very strange story of a man who had lived for a long time in tombs where dead bodies lay. It is strange too that this “demon-possessed” man recognised Jesus for who he was and was afraid of him. Then, at Jesus’ command,...
Jun 8, 2022 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
From very early on in the life of the church, Christians understood the figure of ‘Wisdom’ in Proverbs 8 as a reference to Jesus. They assumed that God the Father had already shown, in words, hints and ways of relating, what He would reveal in full in...
Jun 2, 2022 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
In Genesis 11:1-9, the story of the Tower of Babel continues the theology of sin that is found in Genesis 2 and 3 in the story of the Fall. The Acts 2 story of the Day of Pentecost is a richly satisfying reversal of this downward momentum in understanding. The...
