Category: Reflections
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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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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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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…
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Lent – 1st reading for discipleship reflections
Today is the first day of my Lenten discipline of posting a reading and brief reflection. Obviously, I’m running to the wire. As usual. The reading is Mark 1:1-13. The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God… It begins with Isaiah, then John, and eventually Jesus. Jesus’ story doesn’t begin…
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Destruction, mindless destruction.
Our friends at The Tent of Nations suffered a dreadful blow on the 18th of May, as Israeli Defence Force bulldozers demolished fruit trees on their farm. Daoud Nassar explains below: Today at 08.00, Israeli bulldozers came to the fertile valley of the farm where we planted fruit trees 10 years ago, and destroyed the terraces and…