Holidays and Hebrews!

29 January 2011 : Hebrews 10 : 1-18 It’s great to be back. Or so I keep telling myself and eventually I’ll believe it. Maybe. Anyway, since we last saw you we have had 2 weeks of doing precisely nothing in our usual holiday hideaway of Caleta de Fuste. It is not a...

Walk in the Light

27 February 2011 : John 11: 1-20 [p. 1077] It’s been four months since we last looked at John’s gospel and at that time we began our study of one of the most remarkable of all the miracles, even by Jesus’ own very high standards. We noted from the opening verses of...

Three big words and a dish of fruit

6 March 2011 : Matthew 12 : 30-37 I promised – or should I say threatened? – to return to these verses today as we pick up Jesus in feisty form. Last time we learned that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit was the unforgivable sin – that is, stubbornly holding on to...

Ambassadors of Christ

13 February 2011 : Matthew 12 : 22-30 Once again we see Jesus engaged in a difference of opinion, to put it mildly, with the religious establishment. This is a recurrent theme throughout the gospels, and as we noted last time it is the street-map to the cross. What...