God, a lawbreaker: a radical thought. God, I place you, dare I, on the judgment seat, the ultimate judgment seat. I have found you to be guilty of law breaking. I accuse you of breaking the law. How can you, the perfectly righteous judge of all, be guilty of breaking your own law? How is it even possible […]
I sat in the spa pool with Campbell on the Saturday night, one week before I was to give the Sunday morning sermon. He was to speak the next day and was thrashing around his final thoughts. His sermon was on Loving the World with Patience, mine, Loving the World with Kindness. It seemed the […]
Was Mary the mother of Jesus humble, obedient, meek, and mild? Or perhaps a little sassy? I wonder? I mean I don’t mean sassy in a disrespectful or dishonouring way – well perhaps not, anyway. Rather as someone with a little more spunk to her. Honestly, the Scriptures don’t really reveal her personality to us, […]
What was it that caused you, Judas, to say yes to the invitation offered to walk with the man, Jesus? What drew you to him? Were you perhaps just in the way of things when he was calling out and naming his disciples? Were you an observer in the crowd? Did people say that you […]
Yesterday, I went to a 90th birthday, a person whom I have known for 40 years, mum of a friend. I have always liked this family and their beautiful quirky chaos. They and their guests were people from my earlier years, many, many of my years lived alongside these people. They are good people, who are […]