Month: February 2015
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Lent – 8th reading for discipleship reflections
Back on track, timewise at least. Reading: Mark 2:23-3:19 ‘The Sabbath was made for humankind, not humankind for the Sabbath’. I suspect I should remember this verse more often than I do. Sabbath time, a significant chunk of time set aside to rest, reflect, worship, pray and to not work, requires discipline to create. But…
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My Life, My Job, and My Career
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Lent – 7th reading for discipleship reflections
Back to skating on thin ice, after an attack of the distractables. (sorry this post is late, in other words) Reading: Mark 2:1-22 In a fairly stark reminder of how different most of life was for the people who first heard Jesus preach, we hear the story of the paralysed man who is lowered through…
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Lent – 6th reading for discipleship reflections
I’m attending training for SRI instruction today and the (understandable and necessary) restrictions on SRI volunteers make an interesting contrast with Jesus’ free range proclamation of his message of good news. The reading for today is Mark 1:40-45 Part of Jesus’ proclamation is healing. The good news is good news in a physical and spiritual…
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Lent – 5th reading for discipleship reflections
Running a bit slow this morning – maybe it’s time for a second coffee. Reading: Mark 1;32-39 I need to remember this passage when I’m feeling frustrated about having a long day, or feeling like I’m being bombarded by people who need my input, decision or help. Jesus deals with the people in front of…
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Lent – 4th reading for discipleship reflections
Back to the discipline! The reading is: Mark 1:29-31 I love this short encounter Jesus has with Simon/Peter’s mother-in-law (we never meet Peter’s wife, interestingly). She’s in bed with a fever, which in that time could have meant anything from a heavy cold to any number of potentially fatal illnesses. That Jesus is told about…
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1st Sunday of Lent
I’m taking a break from the Lenten discipline today to lead worship – we’re looking at three passages of Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17, 1 Peter 3:18-22, and Mark 1:9-15 While I don’t usually give titles to my reflections (sermons), if I did give it a title it would be water, hell and baptism, for the important and linked images in…
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Walk by Faith
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Lent – 3rd reading for discipleship reflections
The reading: Mark 1:21-28 Day three and we’re still in Mark’s first chapter, but lots is happening. We get our first mention of Capernaum, the village on the northern shores of the sea of Galilee that is Jesus’ home base in Mark’s gospel. We also get Jesus’ first teaching in the Synagogue. I love the way…
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Lent – 2nd reading for discipleship reflections
Okay, take 2 – a bit more like on time. The reading is Mark 1:14-20 Biblical commentaries on Mark’s gospel always note how it’s the shortest and the most dynamic. Jesus is always going somewhere or doing something and it happens at a rapid pace. Mark doesn’t waste words, which often leaves us filling in…