There are always consequences

As Christmas disappears into our rear-view mirror, we are invited to begin the new year by listening to the letter to the Hebrews which is a...

It is christmas!

We all approach Christmas differently. The good woman who used to look after my aged parents...

O KEY OF DAVID!

‘O key of David ...what you open no one else can close.’ So sings the church...

SING A NEW SONG

As Advent gathers momentum the theme of joy dominates. All this Sunday’s readings announce it. Zephaniah:...

A DOSE OF HOPE

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;...

The messiah, The king

Imagine the shock of Saul at Damascus when he realised ‘this Jesus’, whose followers he was...

‘THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED …

… and the moon will lose its brightness.’ These are hard-to-handle words of Jesus in Mark...

THE KING OF SPAIN

One image that stays with me all this week is not the American election but the...

A GRINDING STONE AND A WINE PRESS

In the beginning of the Christian story there were the ‘Jesus followers’, who, when they spread...

His eyes were opened

Mark writes in a fresh engaging style that draws us into the scene. Take the Bartimaeus...

He offered his life for others

Our short text from Isaiah today is repeated - and fulfilled – in the last words...

SELL EVERYTHING

‘Go and sell everything you own and give the money to the poor … then come...

MARRIAGE

Marriage is the subject of our readings this Sunday and one, who has not married, might...

His majesty’s loyal opposition

Sometime in the 1820s this phrase was first used to describe the party out of power...

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