• Spent a big chink of time today wrestling with John 11.1.45 – massive chunk of text – raises all kinds of big questions, not least .. I wonder how martha’s neighbour (the one whose brother died last year) is feeling about Lazarus’s re-appearance on the scene? In short what to do with the pastoral questions raised by Lazarus being raised? Working…[Read more]

    • Kate, you are onto something. Keep asking!! That is one way the Holy Spirit moves us into the ”slot” He wants us to dive into. It is these kinds of questions that interest others and thus capture their attention as the Gospel becomes more clear to them in your words from God.

  • I heard a great sermon yesterday, at a Young people’s vocations event, with the Arch Bishop of York. The sermon was given by a young woman curate (Revd Emma Johnson of Durham, Diocese) – looking at Moses’ objections to God’s calling, in Exodis 3, drawing a parallel with our own resistance. Punchy delivery, great analogies, sound theology. There…[Read more]

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