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The Problem in the Text
In preaching class at college, we were told to look for the problem in the text. I was never very good at it but I think I found one this week. Jesus bunks off to pray, then leaves town, while a queue...
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Now What? Its Easter morning…
It is interesting that later manuscript copyists felt it necessary to take Mark’s version of Easter morning beyond verse 8. Perhaps we share their concerns for the need for nice neat, happy endings....
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What did Amos see?
This week’s Old Testament lectionary reading in Amos 7 includes the wonderful plumbline illustration. I felt it could be brought up to date a little. How about something like: “What do you see Amos?”,...
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This was a bit of an experiment with some motion type after viewing some of the cool stuff on the vimeo Nice Type channel. Psalm 23 on Vimeo. You can watch it in HD on vimeo. The bible text comes from...
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St Peter and meat balls?!!
They may think that I have completely lost the plot this Sunday if I show a clip from Cloudy with a chance of meat balls in church. Hamburgers dropping from the sky or a net bursting, haul of fish –...
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The Wordle of the Lord?
I came across Wordle in the weekend’s Guardian and thought it would help the thinking process to put this week’s lectionary texts through it for a quick visual: Wordle takes any text or url and...
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The Naaman Storyboard
None of the young people in our church had heard of Naaman (2 Kings 5), or at least they didn’t want to admit it, despite a childhood of church kid’s clubs and the like. When did we stop telling these...
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The Beatitudes – Who is really well off?
That’s the title that Dallas Willard gives in his book The Divine Conspiracy, which is pretty much the best book I ever read. It is particularly relevant to the text given in this week’s lectionary...
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Kingdom Condiments
Well this week is my last Sunday at the church in St Helens before the big move north, so here is a bit of doodling on the text for this week. I must remember to try and find a packet of those crisps...
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From the Archive: The Lovely Pearl
The kingdom of God is to be sought out like the finest of pearls. One of Jesus’s artful stories told in this week’s lectionary: Matthew 13:44-52 The Lovely Pearl You can download other sizes of this...
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