I’m a priest in the Church of England, the vicar of a parish in Portsmouth Diocese, the Area Dean of Gosport, and a member of ...
The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for the Second Sunday before Lent in Year A, is Matthew 6.25–34, a section of the ...
Last week, I was doing some teaching in a local church about the Book of Revelation, and happened to put up a slide with the list of the tribes of Israel in the counting of the 144,000 in Rev 7.5–8.
It is fascinating to see the way that careless readings of well-known texts keep resurfacing in different contexts. One of ...
The lectionary epistle for the Second Sunday before Lent is Romans 8.18–25—often called the pinnacle of the New Testament. In a theologically rich, carefully structured passage, Paul explores the hope ...
The gospel reading for Epiphany 4 is John 2.1–11, the water into wine at the wedding in Cana (also the reading for Epiphany 3 ...
Having painted the picture of the amazing things that God has done for the Corinthians in the first verses, Paul has then ...
Last week, I was doing some teaching in a local church about the Book of Revelation, and happened to put up a slide with the list of the tribes of Israel in the counting of the 144,000 in Rev 7.5–8.