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Luke 13:31-35 “We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create … Read More »
Luke 10:1-20 On our holiday in Port Fairy I stumbled across some interesting finds in an antique store in town. I picked up this official publication, “Australia – Official Handbook’, 1947. The preface reads as follows: “This book, telling … Read More »
John 20:19-31 Today’s Gospel recounts the story of Thomas, known popularly, although not accurately, as Doubting Thomas. Whatever the origins of this story, it is both a challenging and hopeful story, one which asks some important questions and leaves the … Read More »
Matthew 2:1-12 Over Christmas we have been reading Luke’s gentle rendition of the Jesus story. Today we step into the adult’s only version of the story as told by Matthew. We leave behind the all-inclusive family photograph of Luke … Read More »
Mark 13.1-8 Noticed a cartoon recently with a man dressed in alternative clothing standing on a street corner with a sign that read, “The end” and underneath it “is not near”. How easy is it for us to read the … Read More »
Mark 9:38-50 49“For everyone will be salted with fire. 50Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.” *********************** How easy is … Read More »
Sea Fever (John Masefield) (Mark 4:35-41) I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick … Read More »
John 20:1-11 (10) Then the disciples returned to their homes. People rarely make instant decisions. People rarely get it straight away. No matter how obvious it may seem, no matter how remarkable something maybe, we seem to resist accepting what … Read More »
Had a revelation last night, about 1am. Seems normal. The idea was very simple and came in the words, “we only hear the voice over, we really see the face.” When was the last time you really, and I mean … Read More »
Franklin D Roosevelt is famous for the saying, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”[1] This is the fourth sentence of his inauguration … Read More »