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, …
Luke appears to be the most feminist of the gospel writers, if the opening pages of his gospel are anything to go by, compared to the others. Interestingly, Joseph gets paid no attention by Luke, unless the detail is needed to identify Mary more so, or tell the reader where she went. Luke is totally …
Continue reading Advent 2022 #13: Joseph V Mary or Joseph & Mary?
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 …
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