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greater things
You will do greater things than these. Jesus said that to his disciples. To the ordinary men and women who followed his teaching and tried hard to live the way…
Pray
I often wonder if we read some of the stories in the Bible so often that we stop seeing what’s in them. If we stopped being amazed by the big…
new future?
I wonder what we make of the idea of ‘God with us’? Maybe it’s easier to understand when that’s a baby in a manger. But what it if it’s more…
Where else would I be?
When Jesus is posted missing his parents are frantic... but where else would he be?
Magnificent, she says
Mary's song takes a perhaps unexpected twist though…. so before we get all starry eyed and sentimental… this is two pregnant women discussing the downfall of all earthly empires!
this is the good news?
John the Baptist calls them a group of snakes... and this is the good news? How?
prepare the way
How do we prepare the way? What would the refining fire find in us that needs removed? What would the fuller’s soap wash away?
truly a king?
Their conversation is pure political theatre. It’s a dance of very carefully spoken words. Questions asked but never quite answered. Charges are made and identities confirmed, but not in a…