What is True Religion? To Live Differently – Luke 6 (6/24)

Jesus teaches that in order to have true religion we must live a different way. To the religious Jews nothing is more sacrosanct than the Sabbath. They think they are pleasing God by forcibly enforcing the Sabbath laws upon the people, hanging a weight on them that even they struggle to keep. Jesus hits right at the heart of this hypocrisy and so begins the conspiracy by them to do something about Jesus.

Preparing the Way – Luke 1 (1/24)

Luke, a medical doctor in the first century undertook to collate all that he and others had seen with their own eyes. If they had been invented, he would have gone round with a dictaphone and note pad interviewing loads of people who had seen or been with Jesus from his birth to his death and beyond. With this information he wrote an orderly account of all that took place and recorded his wonderful historical document.

Counter-Culture – Reflecting a Change of Heart (1/3)

An eye for an eye..?

We have been inexorably drawn into the claims culture. We are bombarded with adverts like, “Have you been in a no-fault accident?” We have been given to believe that someone is always to blame; Jesus reminds us that it used to be normal to seek recompense when wronged, even to the point of death; now we are being encouraged not to resist when wronged…