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It just happened no 6

After writing about Luke’s description of Jesus entering Jericho yesterday, today I was reading Alister McGrath’s book ‘Christianity’s Dangerous Idea’. A completely different genre and topic but suddenly I found McGrath referring to the city himself as I read:  “For…

Shut up John

I was browsing Marcus Loane’s book ‘Mark These Men’ which provides 25 very short biographies of men who influenced the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in the 20th century. I’ve had a bit of a chuckle over these lines about Richard Bradley…

The Day of Small Things

“And again he said, To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.” (Luke 13:20-21). I spoke yesterday on Luke…

Shortest verse – John 11:35

My last three posts have had a ‘Sorrow’ theme: ‘Sorrow, and then the two from Anne Frank’. I did not plan it that way…just the way it went. This one closes the mini-series. Over many years, I have taught children…

Anne Frank’s aspiration

“As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs” (Psalm 84:6). (Baca is similar to the word for ‘weeping’.) Last post I quoted from Anne Frank. I love how passionate Anne Frank is about…

Anne Frank looks up

This evening I read Psalm 84 as part of a prayer for a brother who was experiencing great discouragement. My friend’s experience has been constant over many years. “Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are…