I have heard people ask before whether there is a passage from the Bible that sums up the whole Christian faith. Something that just bundles up the whole faith into a few words.
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'Conquer the World' (Easter 6)
There’s a word that keeps showing up in our readings, both last week and this week. It’s the word love…. That word love shows up in some way 5 times in the Epistle and 9 times in the Gospel. And last week, in a reading from John’s Letter, we heard the word love 27 times! In my sermon last week I said that we need to turn aside from everything that is not of love. I recognise there’s a problem with this, if I may say so. It could just sound so wimpy….
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A curious thing happens in today’s Gospel reading. Jesus goes into a synagogue and teaches on the Sabbath day. That in itself is not strange. But what is curious are the reactions to his teaching and to his presence.
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