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Tag: Jesus

  • count me in

    It seems that this is my 900th bloggage. That’s 900 separate posts – probably the best part of 500,000 words with 526 different subject categories and 814 tags spread over just 10 pages. Amazingly I have only used 10% of my space allocation on WordPress. There have been 319 approved comments and I have been…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • joy

    I can remember one of my Ministers when I was a teenager joking about Christians who have a SWEG: slimy, wet, evangelical grin. He was commenting on the superficial artificial saccharine smile that we share with one another to convey that we have everything under control and that we love Jesus. I wonder if the…

  • 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…

  • still in secret?

    He told me, “No one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit…” He explained Scripture like no-one I have ever heard before. He understood God. He understood me. I thought he was The One. But he can’t be. Look at what they have done to him. He…