Last week we were asked to recognize that the starting point for our Christian life is our relationship with God. This week Jesus spells out what that relationship implies (Luke 6:27-38). At present there are many people who claim to live a Christian life but there seem to be a very wide range of ideas […]
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Faith, hope and charity – the traditional formulation of the three cardinal virtues. Like the four classical elements, earth, air, fire and water, which were thought to make up the physical world, the Christian life was built from faith, hope, and charity. And just as the elements are bound together to make up the world,
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Today we hear the dramatic story of Isaiah’s encounter with the divine – it’s terrifying (Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8). But it ends with him accepting what God is asking of him – “Here I am, send me”. Paul doesn’t play up the dramatic in his telling to the Corinthians of his calling (1 Corinthians 15:1-11) –
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Following the Baptism of the Lord we’ve had two Sundays where we heard how John and Luke introduced the public ministry of Jesus. Today we suddenly jump back to a story of Jesus’ childhood (Luke 2:22-40). This certainly isn’t the straightforward order that Luke promised at the beginning of his Gospel, and indeed it doesn’t
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