Division over who Jesus is is nothing new
The Jews knew what they were waiting for. Well, at least they thought they did. Not what, but who. They were waiting for the promised Messiah, spoken about by God’s messengers, the prophets, as...
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Exploring the identity of Jesus further
It is John’s account that takes the exploration of Jesus’ identity further. If Matthew’s thing is to focus on the kingdom of heaven, then John’s is to probe into who Jesus really is. As...
Who was Jesus? But firstly, who was John the Baptist?
The man known as John the Baptist came before Jesus. His life and ministry overlapped with the life and ministry of Jesus. Their mothers were cousins. In the first chapter of Luke, Mary goes...
Carrying on the theme of how we value people and possessions…
Jesus has an awful lot to say about money, doesn’t he? More than about any other topic I’d say, apart from how we treat other people – but then in many ways, the two...
Three more enigmatic parables for you to get your head around…
Working life: that’s another area of life that everyone in Jesus’ day could relate to. Most people either employed workers or worked for someone else. Work relationships mattered as much in Jesus’ times as...
Breaking down the barriers of us and them
An expert in the law: Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus: What is written in the Law? How do you read it? The expert: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your...
Do you have it in you to forgive?
The story we’re looking at today is about an unmerciful servant. Neither word is one we use very often in our culture. So let’s start there. A servant in Jesus’ time was sometimes a...
Lost and found
Today’s parables tap into an emotion that we’re all familiar with: that moment of sheer joy when we find that one thing we’ve lost and have been desperately searching for. Let’s start small. well,...
The kingdom of heaven is like…
What is the kingdom of heaven like? That’s what they all wanted to know. Jesus was describing a kingdom like no other place they’d ever heard of before. Not a distant heaven up there...
The challenge of really listening and really hearing
This month, we’ve been looking at the things Jesus said across the the first four books of the New Testament that all focus on the life of Jesus here on earth. I don’t know...
