Carrying on the theme of how we value people and possessions…
Jesus has an awful lot to say about money, doesn’t he? More than about any other topic I’d say, apart from how we treat other people – but then in many ways, the two...
Monthly Archive: January 2018
Three more enigmatic parables for you to get your head around…
Working life: that’s another area of life that everyone in Jesus’ day could relate to. Most people either employed workers or worked for someone else. Work relationships mattered as much in Jesus’ times as...
Breaking down the barriers of us and them
An expert in the law: Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus: What is written in the Law? How do you read it? The expert: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your...
Do you have it in you to forgive?
The story we’re looking at today is about an unmerciful servant. Neither word is one we use very often in our culture. So let’s start there. A servant in Jesus’ time was sometimes a...
Lost and found
Today’s parables tap into an emotion that we’re all familiar with: that moment of sheer joy when we find that one thing we’ve lost and have been desperately searching for. Let’s start small. well,...
The kingdom of heaven is like…
What is the kingdom of heaven like? That’s what they all wanted to know. Jesus was describing a kingdom like no other place they’d ever heard of before. Not a distant heaven up there...
The challenge of really listening and really hearing
This month, we’ve been looking at the things Jesus said across the the first four books of the New Testament that all focus on the life of Jesus here on earth. I don’t know...
To rest is not a waste of time: maybe this is the greatest challenge of all
In his day, Jesus’ teaching was met with a variety of responses. Whilst his description of this incredible new kingdom, where God’s way of doing things was restored, inspired many to follow him and...
Empathy could change the world
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12 The Law that God gave to his people to map...
It’s all down to the choices we make
The Lakota tradition describes two roads or paths that every man must choose between: the Red Road and the Black Road. The Red Road is the road of honor, wisdom, power and vision. The...
