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Mark 8:1-21 What hardens our hearts and stops us seeing Jesus? What about our relationship with Jesus and our tendency to fall back on the way we used to do things? When we see the goodness of God in our lives why do we so easily take control back into our own hands? Standing on God’s […]
Mark 1:40-45 In this fourth in the series, Tim considers the healing of lepers, their social isolation and the reversal in position as Jesus retreats to isolated places. He considers the differences between the ten lepers healing in Luke’s account and the one in Mark’s, and asks for our reflection on taking Jesus for granted.
This third in the series was given in an All-Age service. Mark 1:29-39 Jesus at home in Capernaum demonstrates the presence and reality of the kingdom of God.
Rosie speaks about the resurrection of Jesus, the place of faith and doubt, and the role of women in being the first ones to hold the good news.
Mark considers the different exceptions of those in Jerusalem and the geographical context of the familiar triumphal procession. He asks: What brings peace? and What is peace? The text is from Luke 19:28-40
The introductory reading to this talk is Mark 1:9-15. The urgency in Mark’s gospel in indicated by his use of the word ‘immediately’ – some forty times. Simon Phipps explores the ‘grand plan’ of Mark’s gospel and the question Mark is answering: Who is Jesus? In our desire to be a disciple-making church Simon focuses […]
The passage in the lectionary today, Mark 9:2-9, comes in the context of Jesus’ question to the disciples; ‘Who do you think I am?’, and his preparation of the disciples for the coming crucifixion. The disciples hear God speak about his Son. The transfiguration shows them God ‘glorifying’ his Son – the ‘metamorphosed’ Jesus reveals […]
Mark takes the passage from Luke 2:22-40 and shows insights into the big story of God, connections between the Old and the New Covenants, the sacrificial lambs of Hebraic worship, Mary and Joseph’s poverty seen through the sacrifice they offer as they bring Jesus to the Temple, the wonder of Simeon and Anna’s faithful waiting […]
In the first part Jan Smith takes a narrative approach to the gospel reading for today: John 2:1-11 , telling the story as a “friend of Mary” and, in the second, considers how we often approach God in prayer with an “action list” for him.
Mark 1: 4-13 On this first Sunday of Epiphany, the gospel writer propels us into the story of Jesus not unlike the way in which we read of the Holy Spirit propels Jesus into the wilderness temptations. Here we find details which should cause us to see Jesus in the big story of God. It […]