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All tagged Holy Week
How many times have you felt this way about your relationship with God. He’s just silent. Maybe you’ve sat there, watching, waiting, becoming increasingly desperate. Maybe you’ve reached the point of questioning if what you had hoped for were really true. Maybe you’ve felt completely alone, or have completely isolated yourself…
I generally think I’m quite good at serving people. But then I read this story and think, “no way!”. I’m not prepared to do that! I like my status, I like my dignity and I don’t like feet! Yet Jesus is desperately serious and completely clear about this…
Do you ever feel sorry for Judas? I do! I sometimes feel he gets a bit of a bad rap. All he really did was get tempted in the same way we all do… it’s just that when he gave into temptation there were earth shattering consequences...
Does my following Jesus look like the melee of other followers? If he observed me in the midst of a crowd of other Christians would he see just another one of the many, whom he loves and died for, but who is missing the fullness of the Kingdom. Or would he see in me something that would cause him to smile?
Many of us are familiar with the story of Jesus clearing the temple. Its common to use it as a challenge to whether our churches and Christianity as a whole has sold out to commercialism. But the cursing of the fig tree is a bit more bizarre. What was going on here?
It turns out I like comfort. Actually I’ve always known that. I’m a creature of habit and routine. I like things the way I like them. And I wouldn’t describe myself as a particularly out-there or radical person. But I’ve discovered over lent my comfort loving runs deeper than that…
