Month: March 2018
Sermon Good Friday 2018
Saturday 31 March
Mark 15:42-47 Today’s reading serves as an introduction to Holy Saturday, though Mark does not even mention it. There is only one sentence in all four Gospels which deals with that day. Luke states: But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment. We have a difficulty with this day because we have […]
Good Friday 30 March
Mark 15:1-41 This chapter is the climax of Mark’s Gospel. We have all read it, perhaps hundreds of times. Still, each time it strikes us anew with its horror, its injustice and its pathos. I hesitated to comment on it, and considered just letting the text speak for itself. But to be faithful to my […]
Reflection by Rev’d Stewart
Grace or Consequences… the paradox of ball tampering… Even those who profess not to be sports lovers have been following the events of the last week involving our national cricket team and their on-field indiscretions… I’m sure the healthy contingent of South Africans in our church family are looking forward to finding the opportunity of […]
Thursday 29 March
Mark 14:12-72 Today’s reading commences with a reference to the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This is a Jewish Festival dating from the time of the Passover – the escape of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. It involves the removal of yeast from every part of the house. Yeast is a symbol in the Bible […]
Issue 01 – April 2018
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Wednesday 28 March
Mark 14:1-11 Go back and read the first two verses again. The outrage! Here’s this layman, going around healing people, making blind people see, delivering them from demons, and delivering sermons that people actually want to listen to. The priests and wardens call together some members of the Parish Council, invite the Bishop ’cos they […]
Tuesday 27 March
Mark 13:1-37 Thankfully, we are not doing a detailed study of Mark – just a Lenten devotion. So we don’t have to get into all the detail of this very difficult chapter. There has been an enormous amount of ink, paper and megabytes devoted to opinions on what this chapter is about. We’re going to […]
Monday 26 March
Mark 11:27 to 12:44 This is a very long reading, so we’ll make it a (relatively) short devotion. After a series of intellectual skirmishes, where various priests and teachers try to trick Jesus into saying something which they could use to condemn him, we finally meet a teacher of the law who takes Jesus seriously. […]