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Category: Jesus

  • logos

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Or to be more precise, about 20 years ago in Beckenham… It was while I was at the vicar factory also known as Spurgeon’s College and I was at home working on my New Testament Greek. We were studying John’s gospel. I had been reading…

  • Acceptable response

    Last week, in response to the headline policies announced at political party conferences I tweeted that when Jesus said that we would always have poor people the correct response is ‘Challenge accepted’ not ‘Okay!’ I have pondered this since then and wonder what the correct responses might be to some of Jesus’ other difficult sayings……

  • you’ve got post

    To balance yesterday’s numptyism I thought that today you might like to receive a letter from Jesus. Dear Numpty er, sorry, wrong letter! Try this one: Be blessed, be a blessing

  • Friday 13th (bwah hah hah hah) [sinister laugh]

    Dum dum daaaaah [spooky music] Today is Friday 13th, 2013. Superstitious people are somewhat skittish today. What they will be like at 13:13 is anybody’s guess! It seems to be accepted that Friday 13th is an unlucky day because there were 13 at the Last Supper and Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Some other…

  • ready? steady? go!

    I am feeling a bit self-chuffed. It might even be pride if that was not a sin (!). Regular bloggites will know that I enjoy learning and performing magic tricks. Well I have now invented a trick. I think it is quite good, magician friends to whom I have performed it also think it is…

  • wooing and woeing

    I think Bibles ought to have a strong warning on them, along the lines of cigarettes: Warning: reading this book can seriously damage your religion. I am preparing for Sunday morning today and reading a passage in Luke 11 where Jesus goes a bit ‘woe-crazy’. He ‘woed’ those who were trying to get people back…

  • unorthodoxy

    What is the test of orthodoxy for Churches and Christians? How do we know who is ‘kosher’*? In the book of Acts it was quite simple. When people showed that they had been filled with the Spirit of Jesus it was obvious that they were believers. In Paul’s letters (Romans and 1 Corinthians) he seems to…

  • have you found what you are looking for?

    I have loved U2 for ages, ever since the Joshua Tree album blew me away with its amazing sound and gospel-esque harmonies (check out ‘I still haven’t found what I’m looking for’, for example). I have been fascinated by the Christian influence in their music and in their passion for justice at all levels of…

  • Zombie Christians?

    Some of you may be wondering if I have lost it with a headline like that (or is it more of a deadline?) Well, this morning I read John 6:41-59 where Jesus got a bit, well, erm, gruesome. He told people that they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Now I have…

  • grace needed

    Today the news has broken that Lady Thatcher has died. I am sad. Not because I share her politics. I am sad because Christians are encouraged to weep with those who weep, so I am sad for those who mourn her death. I am sad too because of the amount of unpleasantness (and that’s being…