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| End the Week with CME - June 6, 2008 | 6th Jun 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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The Olympics are just around the corner. Athletes all over the world are making their final preparations before they get to the competition. And then they will wait, with mounting excitement and anxiety, for the command: 'On your marks, get set, GO!' (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - May 30, 2008 | 30th May 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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Alfred Hitchcock used to appear in his own films in a fleeting glimpse. He might be a man buying a newspaper or stepping off a bus, turning a corner or walking out of shot. But in any of his films, you'll find him tucked away somewhere, adding his own personal signature to his work. Matthew's gospel contains a similar cameo appearance by its author in 9.9-13 (see the note below on Matthew's authorship of the gospel). Perhaps unsurprisingly, this appearance touches on a theme at the very heart of the gospel. 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice' might be the subtitle for Matthew's gospel. Jesus says to the Pharisees that they must go and learn what the phrase means, for 'I have come not to call the righteous but sinners' (Matt. 9.13). (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - May 23, 2008 | 23rd May 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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Southern Judea by the shores of the aptly named Dead Sea is a bleak and arid landscape of bare rock and earth split by ancient, now dry, water-courses. I'm recently back from a trip to Israel with some Readers from the diocese, and on our last day we travelled south, through this almost lunar landscape. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - May 16, 2008 | 16th May 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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'The sun shines on the righteous' goes the traditional saying, but it's a misquotation. Jesus didn't say it: instead he stressed that the sun shines on both the righteous and the unrighteous. God doesn't play favourites. Rather, the challenge is for followers of Jesus to be distinctive in the world despite receiving no special treatment. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - April 25, 2008 | 25th Apr 2008 | View Full Story | Download |
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Where did Jesus' risen body go? It's a good question for the Sunday after Ascension (now known as Easter 7, though I prefer the old name of 'expectation Sunday'). After the resurrection Jesus' appearances to the disciples came to an end - Luke marks this most clearly by emphasising in his second account that it was a forty-day period (Acts 1.3), though he is less specific in his first version (Luke 24.44-53). Matthew takes a different approach, as we shall see in two weeks' time: Jesus promises to be with his disciples 'to the end of the age' (Matt. 28.20) in the scene which closes the gospel. But what actually happens to the physical Jesus afterwards is unclear. For both Luke and Matthew, though, it is clear that Jesus continues to work through his disciples (Acts 1.1 - 'all that Jesus began to do and teach'; Matt 28.19 - 'Go to all nations and make them my disciples'). (more...) |
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