Have you ever noticed something odd about The Lord’s Prayer? Like, it’s not the Lord’s prayer? No, really. Check it out in Matthew 6 or Luke 11 (this week’s gospel reading) and you will notice a lot of things different from the versions we say in church. There’s that whole chunk at the end missing … More The Lord’s Prayer (plus Colin Firth in *that* shirt)
After last week’s haunting picture of the Devil tempting Jesus, here is their final conflict – and the victor is in no doubt! I wonder what strikes you first about this picture. I wonder what will stay with you. I wonder what happens after this picture. Use your own words to praise God for his … More Being – Final Victory
I wonder … Sit a while with this striking illustration of Luke 4. … for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. The devil said to him … I wonder … I wonder what that hand feels like. I wonder … More Being – The Temptation of Christ
His ministry was going well, everyone was talking about him, he was trending on Twitter – so why on earth did he try to shut people up when they had finally worked out who he was? And why, oh why, did say all that rubbish about getting in trouble with the law and being killed when there was still so much work to do. Jesus clearly wasn’t seeing straight. … More Mark 8:27-38
The Reflectionary 