Matthew's Passion: Peter and Jesus 40 Blogs of Lent: 18 Matthew 26:30-35 The party is over, the last hymn of the feast has been sung. Jesus and his disciples are on their way from the secret supper room to a lonely place outside Jerusalem's walls. If the earlier bombshells were not enough; about Jesus being …
Tag: forgiveness
Matthew’s Pasion: The cross is forgiveness
Matthew's Passion: Take and remember 40 Blogs of Lent: 15 Matthew 26: 26-30 Something strange Jesus has already spoiled what is supposed to be a party by talking about being betrayed. Now we move on to something even stranger. Four cups of wine are drunk at a Passover meal, which tie in with the Exodus. …
Names of God – part 46: The LORD our Judge
YWHW Shaphat Names of God - part 46: The LORD our Judge YHWH is God’s actual name which he revealed to Moses from the burning bush, it implies the personal nature of God. The second part of the name here is how God relates to us: Shapfat means Judge, but this name is not about …
You mess, you confess
A Haiku* based on my previous blog: You mess, you confess, And God will forgive your sin 'Cause God is like that. *Haiku, a poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five with no rhyming plan, originating in Japan.
Broken resolutions
It's that bonus time of year at gyms all over the country as people the length and breadth of Britain resolve to get fit in the new year and buy a year's membership and then visit the place three times. If they knew that gymnasium was derived from the Greek word for a place to exercise …
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Who am I There are times when all the world's asleep The questions run too deep For such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd Please tell me who I am The Logical Song by Richard Davies and Roger Hodgson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQfjIw3mivc "Please tell me who …
let the water and the blood…
Let the water and the blood... Words from Rock of ages, written by the wonderfully named Reverend Augustus Montague Toplady. The song takes it's imagery from a gorge in Southern England, where Toplady sheltered from a storm, from the rock that was struck in the desert and from which water flowed during the Israelites' Exodus from …
