These Advent posts now appear to have taken a covid induced turn. This week is looking like having a few posts on the benefits of isolation in the lead up to Christmas. Yesterday, was stopping and reflecting. Today, it's reading a book. In fact, I'm reading a few books at the moment. Typical. I've usually …
I wasn’t expecting to get covid in the lead up to Christmas, but I did. Outside carolling on Saturday afternoon I was shaking with cold, or so I thought. Nope, shaking with covid, rather. I guess that made me stop a little earlier than I was intending. Sure, I still had to send a flurry …
Gosh I love the shepherds in Luke. I could probably blog about them all month (but I really shouldn't). In a sermon I heard recently, Simon Manchester connected shepherds throughout The Bible with kings. His rationale being that King David, one of the greatest ancient Jewish Kings, was, by trade, a shepherd. There's lots of …
By the time I'd reached about halfway through Luke 2 this year, a few things had stood out to me when looking at the broad brushstrokes of the first Christmas recount. One, being that there was a clear movement and presence of the Spirit at that time. It was particularly evident in a select few, …