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| End the Week with CME - June 19, 2009 | 19th Jun 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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Twelve years is a long time. Long enough for parents to watch a child to grow from being a baby to the edge of womanhood; long enough for a woman to feel her life ebb away into despair with chronic illness. In Mark's story of the healing of the woman with the issue of blood and the raising of Jairus' daughter, one of the themes is faith and hope in the midst of despair. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - May 22, 2009 | 22nd May 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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There's a lot of coming and going in John's gospel, sending and being sent. The Father sends the Son, the Son sends the 'comforter' (John 16.5-7). At the end of the gospel the disciples are included in the movement: 'as the Father sends me, so I send you' (John 20.21). In the parable of the sheep-gate Jesus promises the disciples that 'whoever enters through me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture' (John 10.9). This feature of coming and going characterises John's distinctive contribution to thinking about mission – a word which of course means 'being sent'. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - May 1, 2009 | 1st May 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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I used to have vine below my bedroom window. In the summer it spread out and made a wonderful canopy, and one of my main memories of that house is lying in bed and listening to the rain pattering on the vine leaves below. Showers rarely penetrated to the ground beneath the vine. The trunk was twisted and knotty, but amazingly resilient. It had been planted by a previous vicar, who had brought the root back from Israel. When you stood beneath the vine in summer it enveloped you, and you felt as if you were caught up in it. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - April 24, 2009 | 24th Apr 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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What makes a good leader? I've been wondering in the last few weeks whether the 'Leadership' bubble might have burst. In recent years it has been the theme of the moment, both within and without the Church. Ask people what they wanted, and usually the answer would be 'leadership'. But the collapse of the global economy and the jolting aftershocks which we are still only just recognising raises a big question-mark over what we have celebrated as success in the last decade or so. It's one thing to lead in a growing economy, another to do so in a shrinking one. As someone said of Kevin Pietersen, at the successful beginning of his short run as England cricket captain, it's quite easy to be captain when you're winning: the hard part is to do it when you're losing. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - April 3, 2009 | 3rd Apr 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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Mark's story of the resurrection of Jesus is one of absence, not presence. 'He is not here' says the young man who meets the terrified women on a spring dawn in Jerusalem. (more...) |
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