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| End The Week with CME - July 18, 2008 | 18th Jul 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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Who on earth plants weeds in a garden? This is the riddle at the heart of Jesus' parable of the mustard seed. We've heard this parable so many times before that it can easily lapse into the hackneyed cliché of our own proverb 'great oaks from little acorns grow'. But something much more quirky is going on here. (more...) |
| End The Week with CME - July 11, 2008 | 11th Jul 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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Why is the world like it is? Why do bad people seem to do so well, while good people continue to suffer? These are questions as old as the world itself. They are at the heart of Jesus' parable of the weeds. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - July 4, 2008 | 4th Jul 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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I was sitting in a restaurant a couple of years ago when a girl of about eight, at the next table, asked her dad a riddle: 'What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?' (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - June 20, 2008 | 19th Jun 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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After the cost, the privilege. Matthew Chapter 10 is composed of Jesus' instructions to the disciples as he sends them out to spread his message of good news (10.5). The costs may be high (10.36-38), but in these three verses which end the block of teaching there is different theme: 'Anyone who receives you, receives me' (10.40). Joachim Jeremias says, 'God himself enters the house with Jesus' messengers. What a statement!' (New Testament Theology, SCM 1971, p.239). (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - June 13, 2008 | 13th Jun 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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Increasing road tax to make us all more responsible about our use of cars was a good idea until the price of oil went up. Now the credit crunch makes most of us think the cost of becoming greener is too high and we'd like Mr Darling to do another U-turn, please. (more...) |
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