There are always things in Scripture to make you think and even to question. In out text today we seem to come across a contradiction which is that Jesus said that he wasn’t going to the feast and then he decided to go anyway. Some people have been very critical about Jesus at this point […]

So many people live a life of ease avoiding the hard questions – the ponderings. They don’t want to waste the mental energy on these questions, or they think it is all beyond them and so they do something else. The biblical writer of Ecclesiastes records that some people believe that we ought to eat, […]

So, we need to know the importance of this genealogy but on the other hand also realise that our own genealogies are not so important. Sometimes we might be tempted to put far too much emphasis on our backgrounds as if they somehow grant us immunity from God’s judgement or an automatic pass into heaven. […]

Despite the fact, that the book of Jeremiah has a lot of “woe” in it, there is also a lot of “hope” in it. What we simply read here is that the Lord himself, will bring about healing. He himself will act, the one who is the Great Shepherd of the Sheep. Instead of relying […]

During the worst of the COVID crisis this year (2020), in Australia you saw people stay at home, isolate as best as they could, kept their movements minimal, wore masks, washed their hands, kept a distance from other people. They knew that they were at war and they needed to take precautions. It was a […]

Jeremiah had really looked. He had observed the poor, the rich, the princes, the rulers, the religious elite and he had come up empty. Jeremiah would have been cut up about this. Everything depended on him finding just one “righteous man.” The fate of the whole city of Jerusalem relied on him finding this one […]

Using that metaphor of a deer, the Psalmist is expressing the deep and desperate longing for something and that something or somebody is God. It isn’t just, I really would like to go back to church after COVID is finished but something really far more desperate, something that absolutely consumes the Psalmist. He feels spiritually […]

The thing is that the city of Ephesus was known for its goddess Artemis, the goddess with multiple breasts. Ritual sexual behaviour and prostitution was part of their worship and the language and jokes in the city of Ephesus were often overtly sexual and crude. In that sense, the language and humour of Ephesus are […]