“Fixing our eyes on Jesus”

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Give us each day our daily bread.

One scene maybe many lessons

“The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

Bare feet or Blundstones?

Thinking of the Apostle Paul, I find I regard him in similar terms as Sir Winston Churchill’s description of Russia:  “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”. On the one hand, Paul provides us with such wonderfully insightful statements as his hymn to love in 1st Corinthians 13, his affirmation of the unity…

There is no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”

Pentecost teaches us that being extravagantly God-intoxicated leads us to the awareness that all humanity is (to use Martin Luther King’s phrase) one “Beloved Community”.