I love reading the opening chapters of the gospel of Luke pretty much every December. It doesn't matter how many times you've read these pages, every year when you return to them you find different things, or something different stands out to you, than what stood out last year. It's an interesting observation about humans …
For this is what the Lord says: "I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.” The ancient Jewish love …
I don't know about you, but I've never seen tarot cards dealt in a Church building; and with good reason. However, that's the image of the people of God that is given in Isaiah 65. God's people do not call on his name, but engage in spiritual practices that are well outside the realms of …
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down... The opening phrase of Isaiah 64. It's a call for God to come down to earth and dwell with his people. It's a cry for intervention and Emmanuel. It's a request for Christmas. It may be that my current fatigue is impacting my interpretation of this …
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