Come on and celebrate
This was the reading for 4th Sunday of Lent. Luke 15:11-32. The message is strong, obvious and profound. As with all parables there are characters that can get missed or
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Category: Scripture
As with so many other parts of the rambling blog, this is a collection of posts that are tangential to most things. These are sort of trying to respond to bits of scripture that I need to respond to.
Please, do come in. We’ve been expecting you.
The first time I played “The Earth is the Lord’s” was in St Luke’s church, Brislington, probably around 1990, with the worship band, New Dimensions. It was during a special
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I wandered lonely across Westminster Bridge
A thoroughly poetic psalm, one that could not be written today anymore than then as an exact description of how things come to be, nor of our own place within
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Hail the incarnate deity
Romans 2:17-29 I am very happy to describe myself as a Christian and I hope that if it became illegal to be one, there would be enough evidence in my
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Conversation Starter
Mark’s Gospel is short. Sixteen short chapters that begin in the middle of the story—no frilly nativity for Mark— and ends before later editors thought it should—so someone added a
Continue readingWhy the sad faith?
John 20:19-31. Let’s hear it for Thomas. The guy who doubted, who wasn’t sure. The disciple known entirely through his denigrating adjective: doubting. Why do we disparage him by suggesting
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