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| End the Week with CME - September 25, 2009 | 25th Sep 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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I remember the evening very well. It was about 13 years ago, after an evening service. I had a small group of adults in the Vicarage study for their weekly session of confirmation preparation. I had asked them the previous week to see if they could read the whole of Mark's gospel. As usual when I ask people to do this they came back excited and challenged, buzzing with the encounter with Jesus they had had. They were struck by how different he seemed in the flesh-and-blood pages of this gospel from the meek and mild character of popular belief. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - September 11, 2009 | 11th Sep 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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Safeguarding children is back on the agenda – not, sadly, that it's ever really been away. But as a new set of diocesan guidelines is agreed and a series of training events takes place during the Autumn it's a good time to ask again, 'Why is safeguarding children important for the Church?' (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - July 10, 2009 | 10th Jul 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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'Jesus feeds five thousand' shrieks the headline, '“He cut the bread very thin” claim sceptics' says the sub-head. '“This has to go down as one of the greatest catering-based miracles,” said an expert. “There were even twelve basketfuls of left-overs.”' The quotes are not from the Galilee Gazette but Nick Page's The Tabloid Bible (HarperCollins 1998), which entertainingly retells bible stories in the style of The Sun. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - July 3, 2009 | 3rd Jul 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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Plunging your fist into a bucket of water, pulling it out and seeing how the water immediately fills up the space is sometimes recommended as an exercise for anyone who thinks they are indispensable. The bible is full of stories of people who looked indispensable but ultimately were not. (more...) |
| End the Week with CME - June 26, 2009 | 26th Jun 2009 | View Full Story | Download |
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From the sublime miracle of raising a child from death (Mark 5.21-43), Jesus meets a brick wall in his home town, Nazareth. 'He could not do any miracles there – except he laid hands on a few sick people and healed them' (Mark 6.5). Healing a few sick people might have been impressive enough once, but now it's small beer in the light of Jesus' triumphs in Capernaum and beyond. The people of his home town were ready to be astonished at what had happened through Jesus (Mark 6.2). But by the end of the episode it is Jesus who is astonished at their failure to believe (Mark 6.6). (more...) |
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