Tag Archive for ‘St John’
Thursday 29 August
Passion of St John the Baptist – memorial Jeremiah 1:17-19, Ps.71, Mark 6:17-29 Lean on God today I can almost hear John reciting this psalm in prison. ‘In your justice rescue me …’ Yet like Jesus he suffered and died. Where is justice, where is God? Those questions haunt us. Other lines help: ‘Be a […]
Where are you God? Oh, there you are
© Bill Farrelly ONCE upon a time I was walking through the bush near where we lived and I heard a child’s voice. I followed the sound trying to understand what the child was saying, then I spotted the boy perched on a rock. I realised as I got closer why his words had made […]
What drives your faith?
From ancient times to the present day most religious worship throughout the world is based on fear… terror of a wrathful deity who demands sacrifice to appease him. In the Old Testament times the widespread worship of Baal required that parents sacrifice their first-born child to gain his favour. The Old Testament turned around this […]
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