Now we turn to Luke’s accounts of meeting with the risen Christ. If you are alert you will have spotted that I didn’t look at Mark. Simply because Mark doesn’t have any words of the risen Christ – at least not in the bit we definitely know is from Mark. And so we move toContinue reading “Encountering Jesus: The Questions of the Risen Christ”
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The Risen Christ Calls: Disciples Who Make Disciples
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in theContinue reading “The Risen Christ Calls: Disciples Who Make Disciples”
Words of the Risen Christ: To the Women
Lo Jesus meets us, risen from the tombLovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom THIne be the glory In the period from Easter to Pentecost Tom Wright suggests that it is a good time to find something to take up – much as during Lent we are supposed to find something to abstain from.Continue reading “Words of the Risen Christ: To the Women”
Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah
Isaiah 66 & Matthew 27:27-55 The final chapter of Isaiah and Matthew 27:27-55. Good Friday. Rightly so the readings today are somber, not particularly comfortable or easy. What we must not do is place false humility on ourselves. Let us see our rebellious hearts for what they are, let us be honest about our loveContinue reading “Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah”
Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah
Isaiah 63:15-65:25 and John 13:1-20. The end of 63 into 64 might feel a jar after yesterday’s reading of God’s delight. I find comfort though in these words, a rawness and reality of people of faith with questions, with longing for God but wondering how they can saved, a reminder to God that He isContinue reading “Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah”
Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah
Isaiah 62 & 63:14 Having read through some tough desolation passages we come to these which seem so the total opposite. Sometimes I wonder though if it is actually easier to hear the tough passages than to understand that as part of God’s people these words of jubilee and joy are spoken over us. ThatContinue reading “Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah”
Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah
Isaiah 60 & 61 What a glorious picture of the Kingdom to come. Do not though leave it aside because it is a picture of what is to come and say that’s fine for then but right now I need to do this or that. Let it enlarge your understanding of God for both nowContinue reading “Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah”
Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah
Isaiah 58 &59 Holy Week. Jesus arrived to cheering crowds on what we now call Palm Sunday. Where are we in that crowd? Are we in the streets cheering, do we know why we are cheering? Are we at home letting it all pass us by internationally or not? Are we observing, looking down toContinue reading “Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah”
Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah
Isaiah 57 It all hangs on the second part of v13. Throughout the book of Isaiah there is no other way. There is nothing of our own doing or even the good works we do prepared by God that can save us. Salvation is in God alone, through Christ on the cross. God does notContinue reading “Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah”
Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah
Isaiah 55 & 56 Come to God, come to the cross, come and hear His word. Seek Him, know Him, walk in His ways. Delight as God draws others to Him, worship with them. Celebrate God and His faithfulness. His ways are not our ways. I don’t think any of us would choose the wayContinue reading “Lenten Walk to Resurrection Sunday through Isaiah”
Joshua's Tree Rooted 