KEEPING AND DISCARDING A few weeks ago, I went into Bromley to meet someone for coffee and, when I got home realised that I had lost my jacket. I phoned…

JUBILEE JUSTICE SO- what do you think DID happen next? I mean, it sounds from the story as though everything in the garden is lovely. Zacchaeus has been able to…

DO YOU REMEMBER? READING: Mark 14, verses 12-28. The Last Supper. Have you ever noticed that, when you talk about something that has happened to you, you re-live that story?…

SPEECH! SPEECH! READING AND REFLECTION 1: THE PLACE AND THE VISION Luke 4; 14-21 Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he…

YOUR PARTY PIECE The men of my mother’s family were characterised by being very tall, very thin, gentle, soft spoken and- take it from me. I knew several of them-…

REST, RE-SET, REJOICE OK- what is a Jubilee? Let’s open our party books and find out: “Jubilee is a word from the Bible. Every 50 years is a Jubilee year.…

WAITING AND WONDERING: MOVING ON Miss Havisham- can anyone tell me where we find Miss Havisham? (Charles Dickens. Great Expectations). Miss Havisham is, like many of Dickens’ characters, a grim…

STRANGER OR SAVIOUR? OK- think of a project on which you have worked for hours and hours and hours, and it is still not coming right. You are utterly exhausted,…

WAITING AND WONDERING: LEARNING THE TRUTH It had never occurred to me before just how much walking God does in the Bible. Right at the start he walks with Adam…

RESURRECTION PEOPLE In our secular society, Christian preachers are advised to ask, “so what?” as they write a sermon. Picture yourself speaking to people who have barely heard the name…