Isn’t there something deliciously, riskily attractive about the Jesus of the gospel today? When I was a callow youth studying chemistry I had a teacher who was always saying ‘well you’ll have learned X but the truth is …’ and then he’d go on to debunk whatever X was and show you how, impossible as …
Monthly Archives: January 2002
Thursday Week 1 Year II
Here are two stories that don’t quite work out the way the heroes intend. Three if you include your own. Anthony hears the gospel, ‘go, sell all you have, give the money to the poor, then come follow me’, and with the heroism of youth he does. Sells, gives, and follows a path out into …
Baptism of the Lord Year A
“Here is my servant whom I uphold”. Here he is! But who is he? Who is it held before our eyes, dripping, half-drowned, dazzled? It all began here says Luke in Acts: “God anointed him with Holy Spirit and power and because God was with him he went about doing good and curing any who …
Tuesday after Epiphany
It isn’t the quality of our prayer that counts it seems—it isn’t even the quality of our ministry. What seems to count with God is how well we love—nothing more. So says John. And just in case that scares you, makes you want to husband the meagre reserves of love you feel you have, Mark …
January 4th
Come and See. Two invitations. And one is conditional on the other. Those getting ready for the 30 day retreat will probably be sick of this gospel passage already—we’ve used it a couple of times by now—but there’s a lot said those two words. Come and see. You have to hear them from the mouth …