Andy and Helen’s Journey Through The Bible in Five and Half Years
Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector. Straightaway, that made him hugely unpopular. He took money from the Jewish people to financially support the Roman occupation of their land. And he was rich. Rich because...
What kind of people do you invite into your home? Before we look at today’s passage, I’d like us to consider this question. Actually, in today’s world, I’m guessing the answer for many is...
In my last post, we saw how Jesus broke the rules. I stated that Jesus broke God’s rules and I’ve been challenged about that since I wrote it. According to the spiritual leaders at...
Jesus broke the rules. In fact, Jesus broke God’s rules. According to the spiritual leaders of the day, Jesus regularly broke one of the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses for His people...
And now for something completely different. For the last week, we’ve been looking at the accounts of Jesus healing people from all kinds of illness – physical, spiritual and mental. Now we’re turning our...
This is a huge subject and one I would have liked to have glossed over as it feels like a real minefield and I feel somewhat out of my depth discussing it. However, Jesus...
Today, as part of this week of looking at the healings Jesus performed, we focus on those times that he made the blind to see and the deaf to hear. In Matthew 9, the...
I can’t imagine anything worse as a parent than believing that your child is about to die. That never changes. I remember my grandma saying to me after my mum died that it is...
Some people believe that ‘bringing people to Jesus’ is all about the spiritual. The soul is the only part of a person worth caring about because that is the only part of us that...
When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion heard...
