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Tag: Lent

  • Lent – 14th reading for discipleship reflections

    I’m listening to U2 as I write – 40 is playing, a paraphrase of Isaiah 40, which includes the words ‘how long?’ and ‘I will sing, sing new song’. I’m going to consider these reflections a kind of ‘new song’ that I’m singing to God. Reading – Mark 6:53-7:23 It’s not what goes in, but…

  • Lent – 13th reading for discipleship reflections

    Catching up today – here goes! Reading: Mark 6:30-52 The section titled the feeding of the five thousand begins with the disciples reporting on their successful mission, and Jesus trying to get the disciples away together for some quiet time, because they ‘had no leisure even to eat’. Here is Jesus wanting to bring some Sabbath…

  • Lent – 12th reading for discipleship reflections

    Wow – 2 lapsed days – not good! Reading – Mark 6:1-29 As I sit at my kitchen table at my laptop, with reminders of the large party we had last week still around me, and having substantially more than two changes of clothes (a tunic was a garment similar to the alb I wear…

  • Lent – 10th reading for discipleship reflections

    Second post for the day – this is good for me! Reading: Mark 4:10-41 I didn’t focus on the parable of the sower in my last post, because I wanted to look at it in this one, as part of Jesus’ ‘explanation’ of the parable to his bewildered disciples. In my last placement I regularly…

  • Lent – 9th reading for discipleship reflections

    My discipline lapsed on Saturday – I was distracted by preparations for a party and by the joy of attending and praying at a wedding; now I’m running late for today’s two posts. Reading: Mark 3:20-4:9 On my Facebook feed, several people have shared Tony Burke MP’s post of a video of Tony Abbott as…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…