Banging The Gavel A couple of years ago on Maundy Thursday we gathered at the Church to watch The Passion of the Christ. It features an utterly brutal and devastating depiction of Jesus being beaten, whipped & crucified. It is literally gut-wrenching to watch. Some of us instead watched the BBC’s The Passion – a serialisation of the…
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It Isn’t Me, Is It?! We’re approaching the climax of Holy Week and the story becomes more and more familiar. But please continue to take the time to read it, and to reflect on it. What do you notice for the first time when you read it? You are different now then when you heard it…
A Beautiful Thing… As we progress through Holy week and the story continues, we now find that the Jewish leaders have moved on from simply having Jesus arrested to having Him killed. Things have taken a turn for the worse. As the Pharisees said themselves, Jesus ‘teaches the way of God truthfully, and doesn’t care about anyone’s…
An Impossible Question? Have you ever been in a no-win situation? Where whichever course of action you take you’re going to upset or disappoint someone. And even though you’d give anything to avoid friends/family getting hurt or upset, there just doesn’t seem to be a way out. Now imagine yourself in a no-win situation where you’ve…
Making Enemies & Making Whole Jesus had arrived in Jerusalem for the Passover, but He didn’t go to the court or to the Palace (although He was greeted as a king), instead He went to the Temple. And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned…
Over the last two weeks we’ve hosted five sessions of Easter Cracked in partnership with Bridgebuilder Trust. We’ve welcomed five schools, 160 students & 16 teachers/helpers, and we’ve all had an amazing time as we’ve explored the real details & significance of Easter. The students love it, and the feedback from the teachers is consistently great: Fantastic!…
Hope Is Stirring… Note: Yes it’s Sunday, and we don’t normally have reflections on Sundays, but it’s Palm Sunday and marks the start of Holy Week. It is the most important week in the Christian calendar, and we’re going to use our final Lent reflections by following & exploring the events of that week; delving a…
I’m Happy Because… [ending our exploration of Romans 12, with verse 12, on the 12th] It might seem crazy what I’m about to say, sunshine she’s here, you can take away; I’m a hot air balloon, I could go to space, with the air, like I don’t care, baby by the way. Because… Well if you…
Tangible Unity [continuing our exploration of Romans 12 – Rules for Christian Living] Often when people think about the Church they think about what the Church stands against, because that often what it is most vocal about. Obviously different churches have different opinions, stand against different things, and campaign for different things. Wouldn’t it be great if…
Not On My Watch [continuing our exploration of Romans 12] Yesterday we heard that we are to love sincerely; to love as Jesus loved, and because Jesus loved. We should love in the same way: genuinely & wholeheartedly; selflessly & sacrificially. And so on to the other half of that verse… ‘[…] hate everything that is…