Nov 27, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Come, thou long expected Jesus Today is the first Sunday of Advent, which marks the beginning of the lectionary year of Luke. Ironically, rather than our journey into Luke starting at the very beginning (which, as Julie Andrews will tell you, is a very good place...
Nov 21, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
This Sunday is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, known as ‘Christ the King’ Sunday. The liturgical year begins with Advent, as we anticipate the coming of the King, moving through the year with celebration of his life, works and salvation; and solemn...
Nov 13, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Watch and Pray This reading is one of those difficult, apocalyptic passages which tend to get some Christians a bit excited about the whole ‘end times’ and ‘second coming’ phenomenon. I remember as a teenager in the ’70s, books, films, songs about The Rapture were all...
Nov 6, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Unless the Lord builds the house… In the work of the Presbytery, the work of the congregations and Church Councils across the Presbytery, and in our own personal lives, there are many decisions to be made. This week’s Psalm opens with the words Unless the Lord builds...
Oct 31, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS, Uncategorized
It has been said that a good question is worth a thousand answers. In Douglas Adam’s madcap story, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, (2005), they ask their giant computer the question – you know, THE question – about life, the universe, and everything....
Oct 24, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
I’m pretty certain that Martin Luther didn’t realise that tacking up those 95 theses of his on to the big doors of the college church in Wittenburg would one day result in the streetscapes of the many country towns I have driven through over the years. Before Luther...
