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This reflection is based on the BCP gospel reading for Sunday 7 Feb 2010 This story has been heard so many times and it is difficult to come to it and expect to get anything else from it. It is over-familiar to us, but bear with me for a moment. In the middle of [ READ MORE ]
This coming Sunday is the last Sunday after Trinity and we are hurtling towards Christmas. Before we get there we will glory in All Saints Day, remember those fallen in the wars, we will celebrate Christ the King and prepare ourselves during Advent. As we come to the end of our long Trinity season the [ READ MORE ]
Trinity 14 Mark 8:27-end Who am I? This is one of the foundational questions of all humanity. It has been asked in all ages and is asked across all cultural divides. It is a question that has had many answers, perhaps as many as there are human beings. Although many individuals often have many [ READ MORE ]
Common Worship reading for this coming Sunday: Mark 7:24-end Here is this woman… who is desperate to see her child released from the pain and anguish she lives in day after day. Some of you will be able to sympathise with her, knowing members of your own family who likewise struggle with some affliction day after [ READ MORE ]
You can find plenty of confusion and misdirection in the Gospel of John. John seems to want us to conclude… conclude… conclude very little! It’s clear that the early disciples were also in a state of confusion for much of the time; and so John’s writing is at least reflective of that. But what about us, who [ READ MORE ]
We begin Passiontide today, the week before Holy Week, the last week of Lent. There is a whole bunch of getting ready for this huge event on Good Friday. Although of course this Good Friday event does not make sense without Easter Day. The death of Jesus does not mean much by itself, it only [ READ MORE ]
Kate has this amazing ability. I can go to the cupboard and see that they is nothing for supper; but Kate can go to the same cupboard and produce something to eat for whoever happens to be at our house at the time. This ability has become a source of humour between Kate and I; [ READ MORE ]
Jesus turning our assumptions up-side down – again. The market in the temple had become a normal way of doing things. People arriving at the temple for their acts of worship needed these services; to change money and purchase their sacrifices. Perhaps it is my capitalist conditioning that means that this is just obvious and [ READ MORE ]
I have been in lots of wars. Some of the most fierce were with my brothers that only ended in peace because of the intervention of parents. Even then there was not a lot of peace that followed, only discipline. I have had wars with friends because of misunderstandings and misinterpretations. I have even been [ READ MORE ]
The lectionary readings for Harvest festival Year A caused me some difficulty: Deut 8:7-18 and Luke 12:16-30. The Luke reading is the parable of the rich farmer and the exhortations not to worry. In the end I extended the Luke reading a little, to include the reason why Jesus is telling this parable: a young [ READ MORE ]
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