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Tuesday, 17 March 2026

John 9: Arguing Yourself Into (a Deeper) Faith

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Strangely, Jesus is mostly absent from today’s story. Jesus speaks in verses 1-7 and 35-41. He is present in the remaining verses that const...
Thursday, 23 October 2025

A Certain Ruler (Mustard Seeds 10)

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A Certain Ruler Luke 18:18-30. Oct. 27th, 2022 Verbatim fragments   This certain ruler must have been quite excited when Jesus sa...
Sunday, 19 October 2025

Luke 18:9-14 The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

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  It is tempting to make the two people in the Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector into characters in a kind of 19 th century pantomi...
Friday, 10 October 2025

Luke 17:11-19 The Ten Lepers

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The Text There are a few idiosyncrasies in the text that, when explained, help in understanding the story of Jesus healing ten lepers . 1. ...
Sunday, 5 October 2025

Luke 17:5-10

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How is it that ‘faith’ has come to mean believing something unwarranted, as though faith is intellectual acceptance of a proposition with no...
Thursday, 2 October 2025

More Than a Prophet (Mustard Seeds 9)

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Ann Nadge, a poet I know, has distilled some of the posts from this blog into poetry. She has used my words verbatim, captured the essence...
Monday, 29 September 2025

Luke 16:14-31 The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

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  It is important to notice that in this passage Jesus is no longer talking to his disciples. The previous parable of the Unjust Manager (...
Saturday, 20 September 2025

Luke 16:1-13

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This might be the most difficult parable of Jesus to interpret. It is just not that clear what we should make of it.  • Most people object ...
Thursday, 11 September 2025

The Found Parables – Sheep and Coins (Luke 15:1-10)

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God desires all people to be saved. ( 1Timothy 2:4 ; 2Peter 3:9) No favourites. But how does that work with Israel as the Chosen People ? Wh...
Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Faith is a Gift

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Faith is a subtle human phenomenon. Sometimes I call it a practice to break the usual reflex to reduce faith down to the intellectual assent...
Saturday, 6 September 2025

Luke 14:25-35

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  The saying of Jesus to hate is harsh. But in the time of Jesus it didn’t carry the meaning we attach to it. It is more about attitude and...
Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Hebrews 11:29-12:4

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The Book of Hebrews was written for a community of faith that was clinging to faith in Jesus , but only just. They were being persecuted...
Friday, 18 July 2025

Mary and Martha

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 In this story of Jesus with Mary and Martha , what is it that distracts Martha? And from what is she distracted? A common answer is that ...
Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Luke 8:26-39 The Gerasene Demoniac

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  This is a strange story to modern ears. Although, there are universal insights within the passage that transcend time. Three parts of th...
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