Christmas

  • Advent (something is about to happen)

    Luke’s gospel reads like the screenplay for a movie. 

    Zechariah goes into the temple for the routine annual sacrifice – it’s a special occasion but it’s been happening every year for centuries. As far back as anyone can remember everything has remained exactly the same.

    But something is about to happen…

  • Imagine there's a heaven

    Most human problems are communication problems, and most communication problems happen when we are not listening. I wonder if you can imagine there is a heaven (it’s easy if you try), how does heaven communicate with a world that is not listening?

  • Three words in a strange tongue

    Jesus did not speak English, and through he probably knew Greek and Hebrew, most of the time he spoke an early form of Arabic called Aramaic. You don’t really need to know this, except that there ate three occasions when the writers of the New Testament made sure to write down a word or phrase that was spoken in Aramaic and not in Greek or Hebrew.

    Three words in a strange tongue...