Reflection on Peter’s vision and encounter with the Holy Spirit (Acts 11.1-18) In our first lesson from Sunday, we read of Peter’s vision of a massive sheet that is lowered down from heaven (v.5) and he sees creatures on it that are traditionally forbidden for him as a jew to eat. However he hears a voice which tells him three times,…
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The Shepherd’s Call on “Good Shepherd Sunday” “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.” (John 10.27) In Palestine, it is still possible to witness today a scene that Jesus certainly saw play out some two thousand years ago: where Bedouin shepherds bringing their flocks home from the various pastures they have grazed on during the…
Palm Sunday Reflection “Are you gonna go my way?” Last Sunday, millions of Christians gathered in churches around the world to celebrate the beginnings of Holy Week with Palm Sunday. No most of us are familiar enough with the details of Palm Sunday: how Jesus rode into Jerusalem from the east humbly on a donkey, fulfilling the prophesy of Zechariah 9.9-10,…
Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of Man?’ He answered, ‘And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him.’ Jesus said to him, ‘You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he.’ …
“I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? The Book of Hosea 13.14 NIV The prophet Hosea prophesied during a rather dark and sad time in Israel’s history. He was writing during the period…
February 13th, 2020 “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Ephesians 5.14 One of my favourite contemporary religious writers is a fella by the name of Tex Sample. (And yes, I understand he is actually from, you guessed it…) In 2006, he published a fascinating work entitled “Blue Collar Resistance and the Politics of Jesus: Doing Ministry…