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Christian Family Values - an incendiary approach 18 Aug 2013 | 01:26 pm
Jesus, who his followers expected to bring peace to the troubled family of Israel, tells them that he will do the opposite. Jesus, who his friends saw as one who expressed love and care for those clos...
Dressed for action: Mary Sumner 11 Aug 2013 | 01:35 pm
Jesus said, ‘Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes’. (Luke 12. 37) And when Mary married George Henry Sumner, she married into the family of the great slave trade abolit....
Let the weeds and the wheat grow together until the harvest 28 Jul 2013 | 10:32 pm
Weeds have their day - as Joseph did when his starving brothers turned up in Egypt, bargaining for food. Where once he had fallen victim to their rough hands, on that day he had the upper hand, and th...
Illuminating what makes Martha mad 21 Jul 2013 | 01:35 pm
... Martha ... is in rivalry with her sister. The ... cause of Martha’s worry and distractedness [is] that she is entirely focused on what Mary is or isn't doing. Have you ever been there yourself - w...
The Polish builder and the rescue team: the Good Samaritan today 14 Jul 2013 | 01:45 pm
... On the building site, when a rogue piece of scaffolding fell to the ground and impaled itself in Danny Collins’s left leg, his closest mates, his drinking pals, Dean and Billy disappeared from the...
Christ's disciples in a world of acceptance or rejection 7 Jul 2013 | 01:36 pm
... Luke chapter 10 offers us a unique expression of the meaning of the cross. There, in verse 18, as nowhere else in scripture, Jesus describes his crucifixion experience. In just one brief, astonish...
The prophets - home wreckers or home builders? 1 Jul 2013 | 11:12 am
A prophet is without honour ... at home. Prophets tend to emerge at times of political and social crisis. And those of us who are home birds, home bodies, whose homes are our castles, tend to close ....
Giving up the Party spirit 30 Jun 2013 | 01:27 pm
... The reveling which makes night hideous with its so-called songs - call them howling and you are nearer the mark - the reveling which spends hour after hour in entertainment which heats the blood, ...
Overcoming Legion in our village 23 Jun 2013 | 03:20 pm
...they found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. (Luke 8.35) But they weren’t afraid before. When the man who th...
Luke 7 - Ruptured rituals and transformed taboos 16 Jun 2013 | 01:45 pm
... Jesus places himself in situations where the rituals of old have run their course, and opens up opportunities for people to create new ones, breaking taboos where they have to, all for the sake of...
